[ale] this week's WTF

[Tim Watts]

Virus scan?


On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:06 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Wife has problem printing a two-page Word file (.doc). File contains 
> nothing unusual: no tables, links, etc.
> File hangs while spooling to the printer queue and never gets sent out to 
> the networked printer.
> 
> She sends me the file via email and I open it in OO (3.2) on a FC13 OS.
> I fix the permissions problem and send it off to the printer.  
> Same thing happens.  the file hangs getting to the printer queue on the box 
> and never gets to the printer.  Or at least I give up waiting and kill it 
> after 5 minutes.
> Then I try and SaveAS an  .odt format.
> 
> And I get this message:
> 
> Error: saving the document <filename>:
> This operation is not supported on this operating system.
> 
> WTF?
> 
> Clues and insights would be appreciated.
> 
> Sean
> 
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