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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 100 17:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
To:        chris@monochrome.org (Chris Hill)
Cc:        caj@lfn.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: corel photopaint for linux
Message-ID:  <200007270009.RAA16866@tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000726183214.4641B-100000@localhost> from Chris Hill at "Jul 26, 0 06:36:33 pm"

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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



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