From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 17: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA91437BCC2 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:09:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07025; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA16866; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:09:02 -0700 (PDT) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <200007270009.RAA16866@tera.com> Subject: Re: corel photopaint for linux In-Reply-To: from Chris Hill at "Jul 26, 0 06:36:33 pm" To: chris@monochrome.org (Chris Hill) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 100 17:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Cc: caj@lfn.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Chris Hill: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Craig Johnston wrote: > > > I was just looking at linux.corel.com and noticed they have Photopaint > > and Wordperfect for Linux available for free. It says Photopaint > > requires redhat or debian package management to install. Will I be > > able to install this on FreeBSD 4.0? Anyone done it? > > I've read (on this list, recently) that WP "for Linux" is actually the > Windoze application, but bundled with Wine so it will run on Linux (and > therefore also FreeBSD). I guess there's no harm trying it, if it's free > and you can spare the time to download it. Personally, I wouldn't > bother. > Well, you can say everything you want against DOA/Doze, and I have indeed, but xwp (WordPerfect for Linux) and WP in general is the best word-processing package I've ever seen, used, played-with. It works fine on my 3.X Of course xwp ain't vi... but it's still pretty good:) gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message