Re: Abiword on flash drive

Hi Mark,

> I watch the user list carefully but never saw the
> reference to
> portableapps. It should be better known on the list
> than it is. The
> support for portable Abiword there is really
> impressive. I've downloaded
> mine and am ready to play.

We've only been made aware of it recently ourselves.
John Haller, its maintainer/packager has dropped bye
the -devel list asking for help and support. We hope
to iron out all of the remaining issues ASAP.

> One minor irritation: some locations where I'd like
> to use Abiword
> (like public libraries), don't allow flash drives
> connected to
> public-use computers (at least out here in Los
> Angeles). But I notice
> from the portable-Abiword forum that some files
> still get written to the
> hard drive. So I suppose there's no point in ranting
> to the local librarian.

It'd be best to file a bug in our bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.abisource.com/) or contact John
Haller directly, so that we're formally aware of the
problem.

Best,
Dom

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Received on Mon Feb 20 20:58:53 2006