From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 18 18:07:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07825 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07820 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA27635; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:07:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:07:08 -0700 To: Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How about writing (and posting) a script that invokes the installer properly lowercases the filenames if required, and BRANDS THE BINARIES? It'd be great to have this available so that reviewers and newbies don't have trouble. And if it were shown to the Corel folks, perhaps they could detect FreeBSD and install accordingly. --Brett At 06:58 PM 12/18/98 -0700, Mike Jackson wrote: > > >On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > >> >> Just in case anyone wants to be a little more sure before they download >> 23MB, yes, the just-released Corel WP 8 for Linux works fine under >> 2.2.8-RELEASE. There is one minor glitch in the install if you download >> the seperate files, and that is you need to lowercase the filenames after >> un-gzipping them. >> >> O.K., so the font selection isn't great, but Corel claims that it will >> work with any T1 font that the X server has properly installed, and we've >> got a port that makes all the Ghostscript T1 fonts available to X, so that >> should improve once I've played around with it a little more. >> >> For those that don't know, see http://linux.corel.com >> > >I can confirm that this works on 3.0-CURRENT. I did have some trouble >getting the install script to run, but when I ran it from >/compat/linux/bin/sh it ran fine. > >Mike > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message