From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 19: 3:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7841555F for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA61804; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:00:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:00:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Bob Willcox Cc: Alex Zepeda , hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-Reply-To: <19990510205109.A20474@luke.pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > I went ahead and installed WordPerfect on my system and tried a couple > of Word documents I had laying around (nothing particularly complex) and > they did, indeed, seem to work fine. Of course, complex documents may > be an altogether different story. Alex sent me a pointer to one, 400K in size, and it caused WP to segfault. Maybe there's some problem with graphics (I think there were some embedded graphics in it). I don't care too much, I used to use WP a lot at a company I used to work for, and I liked it a *great* deal more than I ever liked Word. The interface feels nice enough. I'll use it any time I don't use groff directly. I'm starting to investigate xsl (although I haven't time enough for it yet). It begins to look *extremely* promising. If you know much about formatting languages like troff or TeX, you might want to see xlm, DOM and xsl. Take a look at the IBM web site. Heck, that's a good excuse to go take a look at one of the most dynamic programming web sites out there. Take a look at the IBM web site, most especially if you like java or xml or parsers, or .... IBM is diving into open source, feet first! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message