From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 18 19:41:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16062 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:41:17 -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 TAA16056 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA28254; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:40:46 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981218191723.064c4680@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:28:33 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981219124134.S486@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:41 PM 12/19/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> How about writing (and posting) a script > >Well, the correct way to do this is with a port Possibly. It'd be even nicer if Corel would allow the free version to be a package. Jordan, could you step forward and ask Corel's CEO about this? On the other hand, what if the user has bought the non-free intermediate or professional versions of the product? (One of the things they include in these versions, as I understand it, is a nice collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts -- the same ones they distribute with Ventura.) We'd want something that tweaks the installation of the CD-ROM versions. >> that invokes the installer > >There's nothing special there, except that it has this crazy DOS-based >idea of letting you decide where the binaries go. Well, as I understand it, when you download the files, the case of the file names comes out wrong. It'd be nice to fix this. >> and BRANDS THE BINARIES? > >Not required. So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under FreeBSD unless it was branded. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message