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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>
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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



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