Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:41:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981218204151.B486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812180829.AAA02405@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:29:28AM -0800 References: <19981218185524.Y486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812180829.AAA02405@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 0:29:28 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> It's running fine here; should be OK on 2.2.5 and later (perhaps even >>> 2.2.2) - I'm using it now to write some HTML describing in painful >>> detail everything that's involved in making it work. >>> >>> All the usual crap - make sure your LKM's in sync, check you have >>> linux_lib 2.4 or later installed, etc. >> >> I didn't check the version of linux_lib, but it was ancient. I >> installed the new version, and at least now it produces a display and >> seems to be working. Of course, it's full of these silly icons which >> don't mean anything to me, so I suppose I'll have to get Yvonne to >> decipher it for me. > > Do you remember which version you had installed? No. All I have is the following: $ ls -l /compat/linux/ total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Apr 11 1997 .linux_lib-version -rw-r--r-- 1 grog wheel 118 Dec 21 1997 Adreßbuch.url drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 27 1996 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 25 02:40 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 15 1997 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 26 1996 sbin drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Dec 12 1996 usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 27 1996 var I think we can agree it was ancient enough. > If you don't know what the icons do, point at one for a couple of > seconds and it will tell you. Sure. Read http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/d-advocate.html for my take on this approach. > I'm unhappy at the paucity of keyboard shortcuts for things, but I > understand you can roll these to suit, and it's certainly a pretty > tolerable WYSIWYG HTML editor. I'll put up the results of the > evening's work shortly and you can pick its code apart. I'll be interested. So far it looks pretty professional, and before the days of Windoze (about 10 years ago) WordPerfect was my favourite word processor, so I don't want to be too prejudiced. > The one thing irritating me so far is that I can't work out how to > turn off the bloody grammar checker. I expect that its default > American dictionary will piss me off too. I'll comment if I get that far. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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