From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 17:59:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA7F151B3 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:59:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA63707; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Bob Willcox Cc: hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-Reply-To: <19990510173605.B11750@luke.pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message