From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 17:58:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [207.170.114.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E881E15579 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.pmr.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA12884; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:56:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:56:37 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Chuck Robey Cc: Bob Willcox , hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? Message-ID: <19990510185637.A12837@luke.pmr.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <19990510173605.B11750@luke.pmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:50:12PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:50:12PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 06:28:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Does anybody know the status of this? www.cdrom.com is saying it is > > > > scheduled for mid-November and taking pre-orders. Seems its been in > > > > this state for quite awhile. What year are they refering to? > > > > > > When I asked them about 2 weeks ago, they said mid November. Of 2000. > > > > Wow! By November of 2000 I may be retired. :-) > > > > > > > > Not this year, pal. The lady was clear on that. You could find better > > > places to stick your cash, for the moment. To tell you the truth, I > > > just bought Word Perfect (for Linux) and it's *way* smaller, only about > > > 100 megs installed (including help files), and a good deal. I could > > > wish it was FreeBSD-native, but I haven't been able to tell, yet, any > > > difference. > > > > Maybe I'll take a look at Word Perfect. Does it do Word documents? > > Mail me a Word document. I'm not sure, I'll have to try it. I don't do > any Windows here, I haven't any experience with Word (and never really > liked it last time I tried it, years back). Nor I, but unfortunately for some folks it seems to be the only editor they know. :-( I do occasionally get word documents and need a way to view/print them w/o using Windows. -- Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message