Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 07:52:00 +1000 From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: mwakers@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shreela@dcnet2000.com Subject: Re: Win on master/BSD on slave? Message-ID: <19990908220118.736B014CA7@hub.freebsd.org>
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As for the Windows documentation, install a Postscript Printer driver under Windows and when you want to transfer Windows DOC or WRI format documents to Unix print them to FILE as Postscript. Most WUSIWUG Unix editors use Postscript as their basic document format. That will certainly work well .... but a bit expensive solution for a student. There was a discussion on the questions list a while back about a utility called "CUPS" thats supposed to let unix send print jobs directly to regular desktop inkjet printers .... it that works it might possibly be a more economical solution for home use. As for the rest, You might want to sit back and think about this a little more. My suggestion would be to get a second computer and install FreeBSD on that. This way you can be more productive (in any given time frame). I do not know why you want FreeBSD ( although you have picked the BEST free OS in my opinion ), if it is due to the courses that you are taking then you definitely need to consider the following: I agree .... its probably the best solution as long as the money is available. What I use in situations where a second machine is out of the question is either one of those generic $25 (in Australia anyway) removable hard drive thingies to disconnect the drive I don't want to boot, or if the motherboard is a reasonably late one just go into BIOS and temporarily disable the primary master ..... always worked better for me than those boot managers 1) Win95 is essentially a games OS, it is also very prone to crashing when you least expect it, I strongly recommend that you switch to Windows NT Workstation. (For stability, if for no other reason). As long as she doesn't have heaps of legacy games :) ..... but then do moderately "serious" BSD hackers waste time on such triviality ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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