One thing that was a barrier preventing me from migrating to Knoppix from Window$ 98SE was how to import my 1000's of emails into Kmail from Outlook Express 6. Happily this gentleman, Ulrich Krebs, has coded a utility that runs under Win, that converts the '.dbx. files to '.mbx'

He makes it available for free from http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

(this is the English link).

I still have a few issues with Knoppix, when I start a new session my desktops icons are all over the place, I've bodged a startup script that resets some of the parameters that Knoppixs autodetects, i.e. I put DMA back on, automount the harddrives and set permissions to 'rw' (why doesn't bootmisc.sh get run?)

The big thing is I'd like to use my old HP (hpgl) plotter with QCAD, but cannot find out how to! Shame, no matter, I'm still better off!

www.stuartkennedy.org.uk