Re: Hating it already

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From: Walt Mankowski
Subject: Re: Hating it already
Date: 15:57 on 22 Aug 2006

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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:57:34PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
> The past hours I have been searching for software that:
>=20
> - runs on Linux
> - lets one easily administer addresses
> - prints labels (standard 4x8 sheets)
> - won't confuse my grandpa with terms like "ldif" and "merge"
>=20
> This seems like a reasonable thing to expect the world to have produced.
> Unfortunately, I still haven't come across anything that remotely looks
> like what I'm looking for. Everyone seems to suggest using OpenOffice
> and document merging, but that's ten times too complex.
>=20
> But if it exists, I'm hating it already.

A quick "apt-cache search label" turned up "glabels" and "kbarcode" as
possibilities.  I haven't tried either of them, so I don't know how
hateful they are.

Walt

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Hating it already Juerd 13:57 on 22 Aug 2006
- Re: Hating it already Walt Mankowski 15:57 on 22 Aug 2006
  - Juerd 15:21 on 22 Aug 2006
    - too deep to show
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 16:11 on 22 Aug 2006
    - too deep to show

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