On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:44:20 -0400 William Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com&gt; wrote: I think you need to sharpen your search-foo. :-) Summary - probably a text file viewable in any text editor, even less. From https://www.lifewire.com/ptx-file-2622809 Your PTX file may instead be an E-Transcript file. These files are often used to store courtroom hearing transcripts, and can be in either the PTX format or in a self-contained EXE file; the former is normally used so that the file can be sent over email (EXE files are usually blocked by email servers). When in the PTX format, E-Transcript files can be opened with E-Transcript Manager or for free, though in read-only mode, with E-Transcript Viewer. Since they're probably text-only files, you might also find a text editor like Notepad++ useful in reading the PTX file. The similar .PTZ E-Transcript Bundle files can be opened with these programs too.

On 06/20/2017 12:11 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: That may be because wine is mostly intended to run games.

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 11:10 -0700, stan wrote: Nope. Yeah, I saw that site. It's not readable in vim, kate, more, less, etc. Kate complains of unrecogizable encoding. Gedit complains of invalid characters. I was kind of hoping to be able to look at in Linux, and not move to Windows and Notepad++. billo

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:13:00 -0400 William Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com&gt; wrote: I apologize for besmirching your search skills. :-) If Tom's suggestion doesn't work, it is probably in exe format. If you can contact whoever sent it to you, you could ask them to send it as a text file instead of a ptx exe file. If they created it, they must have the commercial product that would allow that. If you can't get it in a text format, then it is probably going to need that windows tool to read it. As a long shot you could try unzip on it to see if the encoding is just a compression step.

Apparently, it's very proprietary. I've asked around and all the lawyers I know say you have to download the e-transcript software, which only runs on Mac or Windows. I ended up calling the lawyer, and they translated into a PDF for me. Thanks for trying! billo On 2017-06-20 16:51, stan wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:13:00 -0400 > William Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com&gt; wrote: > >> > Summary - probably a text file viewable in any text editor, even >> > less. >> > >> > [snip] >> >> Nope. Yeah, I saw that site. It's not readable in vim, kate, more, >> less, etc. Kate complains of unrecogizable encoding. Gedit >> complains of invalid characters. I was kind of hoping to be able to >> look at in Linux, and not move to Windows and Notepad++. > > I apologize for besmirching your search skills. :-) > > If Tom's suggestion doesn't work, it is probably in exe format. If you > can contact whoever sent it to you, you could ask them to send it as a > text file instead of a ptx exe file. If they created it, they must > have the commercial product that would allow that. > > If you can't get it in a text format, then it is probably going to need > that windows tool to read it. As a long shot you could try unzip on it > to see if the encoding is just a compression step. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

On 2017-06-27 08:49, fred roller wrote: I went on ebay and looked at win 7 distros for sale. It seemed to come in two flavors, one flavor came with a busted disk drive for about $40 and another without a busted disk drive for about $100. Both kinds said they came with appropriate certificates, etc. I wasn't sure if both could be thrown on a Virtualbox disk. I use Virtualbox for an old win XP distro I have for previewing LibreOffice presentations on PowerPoint to make sure fonts are OK. Unfortunately the e-transcript sofware requires Win 7 and above. I've had that virtual disk for years -- I just keep copying it over when I install new versions of Fedora or Debian. I'm sure it's not secure, but I only use it for about 10 minutes at a time, and not when connected to the intenet. It's been so long since I've used Windows for anything other than basic wordprocessing at work, I don't have a clue what will and will not install on a virtual disk. Do you know if those OEM $39 distros will actually work in Virtualbox? I really don't want to pay a hundred bucks for a distro I use once every two or three years. billo

This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of charge. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO Virtual software on Fedora is free of charge. For simple programs you should not need a stand alone system. If, however, you do need a full system then there are plenty of refirbs for cheap. -- Fred

On 2017-06-28 00:04, Tim wrote: I was surprised, too -- it's running fine in Virtualbox for me. I did a quick search and found a couple of sites that suggest that this is a place set up primarily for Windows users who have trouble upgrading and have to do a clean install. Most of the sites I looked at say that a product key will *eventually* be required. See, for instance, http://www.redmondpie.com/download-windows-10-pro-iso-file-without-produc.... If I go to the Microsoft web site directly and follow the menu options to get Windows 10, I get to a page that says it's $110. I vaguely remember something like that happening to me in the past, where I had some piece of Microsoft software that I was using, and then about a month in it started demanding a product key. It may be that Microsoft has simply decided not to enforce this. I keep hearing rumors that they want Windows 10 to be used as widely as possible, and are considering making it free. Who knows... I guess I'll find out, eventually. billo

On 06/28/2017 11:28 AM, Doug wrote: That is the Windows 10 download page, so that's all that's available there. But if you follow the prompts, you get a direct download link for an ISO file.

On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 14:13 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: I'm starting to get a little thing on my screen complaining that my copy of Windows isn't "activated." Everything still runs, though. It tells me to go to Settings, where there's a line for activation. If I click on it, it complains that I don't have a valid license or product key, and that I'm at risk for viruses and other security threats. billo