Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:29:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812190229.SAA00375@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:07:08 MST." <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org>
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> 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. The lowercasing problem is a feature of the multiple-file download. If you download the single file, everything "just works". The binaries don't need to be branded; they're all dynamically linked. I had mostly finished writing a web page detailing the installation process in exquisite detail when I discovered that WP8 generates bad HTML. I'm about resigned to simply cleaning it up manually and posting it, maybe early next week. > --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 > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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