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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Subject:  Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:48:05 +0000 (UTC)
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Ugh - topposting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU

Jim Drash <jim.drash <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On 3/3/06, P.P.Hughes <iss05e <at> bangor.ac.uk> wrote:
                               ^^^^^^

Ugh - raw email address munged: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

> > When I look at the Log On settings for this service, it's set to log in
> > as .\sshd_server user, not the Local System Account, therefore the
> > "Allow Service to Interact with desktop" option is not available.
> >
> > I'm told that this was recommended by the cygwin installation instructions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul

> 
> By the way, there are much easier ways to convert MS Word Docs to pdfs.

Or even to plain text.  If you install antiword, you can view the text contents 
of a Word document.

-- 
Eric Blake



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