David Aldridge dave@dmaz.demon.co.uk wrote:
spreadsheet should be sufficient for my report writing (although i'm going to need a substantial database - any ideas?).
Depends how substantial you want. PostgreSQL gets the most use here, and there's a pgAccess front end (which I don't use much). If you want a larger download, SOT Office (based on OpenOffice) probably contains a database.
[...] if I download it in windows, how can I transfer it across to Linux?
At the very basest end, you could copy it onto a DOS floppy and use the mtools package to read it from GNU/Linux. (Or if you have an automounter, something like /mnt/floppy may automatically find it, but I'm not sure which distributions set up the automounter.)
A friend at work says that I'll be back on windows in three weeks - if I can sort the modem out I think that I might make things permanent!
Well, you're over the biggest hurdle (installation) and are asking questions of us. Always a good sign!
MJR