Re: Abiword on flash drive

Mark Richardson wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response, Dom. Ask and ye shall receive.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

The next release of Portable AbiWord is supposed to have fixes for
writing to the registry and creating an empty AbiSuite folder on the
hard drive. See: http://portableapps.com/node/660#comment-3470 and
http://portableapps.com/node/901#comment-3302
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Received on Mon Feb 20 21:23:11 2006