Not downing RH at all, but give Mandrake a shot...

> 2.  Because of the previous, I'd like to get a set of ISO's burned of
> the new Redhat 9 distro.  I would like to see if RH has their ducks
> better aligned than SuSE, before I quack up (sorry, couldn't pass that
> one up!!!) 

Use the 'save as' feature in the text editors, select .txt format
 
> 3.  Is there a simple way to extract ASCII text from a Kword file?  I
> see nothing in the docs, or help files to that extent.  I'm used to
> Abiword, which saves its files as XML, and that is easy to edit down
> to vanilla ASCII.  Kword seems to have its own format, or is it the
> same as (ew--shudder) Microslop Word? 
> 
> Your comments as always are welcome . . . . 
> 
> Gary Hildebrand
> St. Joseph, MO 
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