From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 18:18:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28402 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from werple.net.au (melb.werple.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA28397 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29150 invoked by uid 5); 14 Feb 1997 02:18:28 -0000 MBOX-Line: From jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au Fri Feb 14 13:18:49 1997 Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA01884; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:18:49 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199702140218.NAA01884@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:18:48 +1100 (EST) Cc: dave@dogwood.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <199702140151.MAA22743@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Feb 14, 97 12:21:28 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (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 Michael Smith wrote: > 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( I'd just like to see a program to convert msword to dvi. Then [getting back to FreeBSD 8-)] I could have a MIME application/msword defined on my FreeBSD machine that runs the conversion program and then xdvi (or whatever). I don't care about converting _to_ msword, or editing msword. Oh well, I suppose I'd better get out that VC++ CD since I had do delete the installed version because VB would not work, but that's another story! [Note to Australians: I mean Visual Basic, not Victoria Bitter. The latter being far more palatable than the former IMHO. 8-)]. > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137