Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:28:33 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <4.1.19981218191723.064c4680@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19981219124134.S486@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812171134560.19059-100000@harlie.bfd.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812181857050.250-100000@falcon.hinterlands. com> <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org>
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At 12:41 PM 12/19/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> How about writing (and posting) a script > >Well, the correct way to do this is with a port Possibly. It'd be even nicer if Corel would allow the free version to be a package. Jordan, could you step forward and ask Corel's CEO about this? On the other hand, what if the user has bought the non-free intermediate or professional versions of the product? (One of the things they include in these versions, as I understand it, is a nice collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts -- the same ones they distribute with Ventura.) We'd want something that tweaks the installation of the CD-ROM versions. >> that invokes the installer > >There's nothing special there, except that it has this crazy DOS-based >idea of letting you decide where the binaries go. Well, as I understand it, when you download the files, the case of the file names comes out wrong. It'd be nice to fix this. >> and BRANDS THE BINARIES? > >Not required. So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under FreeBSD unless it was branded. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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