Re: [seul-edu] Encyclopedias on CD-Rom

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Jim Thomas wrote:

> Does anyone know of a Linux app that can make use of the many
> encyclopedias available on CD-Rom?
>
> Right now I've got Windows installed in our library, and the only thing
> keeping me from converting these boxes to linux is that we're using them
> with several encyclopedias:
>
> Britannica, Grolier, Encarta, and World Book.
> Hmmm... we've also got a set of CD's from National Geographic.

Well, there's QGEO <http://qgeo.sourceforge.net/>.  That should work for the
National Geographic stuff.  As for the others, I don't know.  Do any of them
use HTML interfaces?

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