| Art Alexion on 5 Dec 2006 15:21:42 -0000 |
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On Monday 04 December 2006 19:53, gyoza@comcast.net wrote: > gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:57:39PM -0500, gyoza@comcast.net wrote: > >> Are there any computer-based encyclopedias that are know to work or not > >> work on Linux? > > > > > > But I guess you're looking for not-necessarily-connected browsing? > > Yeah, I'm looking for something to use "off-line" and give as a gift. I > like to buy to own as opposed to paying for subscriptions. Have you thought about trying one of the commercial CD/DVD base encyclopedias using wine? Wine is handling a lot of things well these days except where a program requires IE for Internet access. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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