From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 17:51:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26651 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:51:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26641 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA22743; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:21:29 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702140151.MAA22743@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199702140102.RAA15071@white.dogwood.com> from Dave Cornejo at "Feb 13, 97 05:02:35 pm" To: dave@dogwood.com (Dave Cornejo) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:21:28 +1030 (CST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Cornejo stands accused of saying: > > > > > > They certainly don't seem to. Maybe reverse engineering is unnecessary: > > > WordPad groks Word 6 format, and the source is in among the samples on the > > > MSVC4.2 CD. > > > > What are the licence restrictions on that source and things derived > > from it? > > WordPad is a demo program for the "power" of MFC - so you'd have to > port MFC to whatever to get it running. I think that they also supply > those on the 4.2 CD (I don't have mine here so can't check) but I'd > expect that all those sources are meant for reference use by licensees > of VC++ only... I wouldn't really care if I were going to be serious about it; I'd take the guts of the program and use a native X GUI (probably Tk in my case), or go to someone like Willows or Bristol Softworks (?) and use their MFC-for-X libraries. The Twin XPDK actually looked pretty neat back when it was easily available; these days it's too expensive for me to take it seriously. 8( > Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[