From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 11:40:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06043 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:40:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06030 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19571; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01928; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:40:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902111940.LAA01928@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199902111928.NAA13679@PeeCee.tbe.com> from David Kelly at "Feb 11, 99 01:28:00 pm" To: dkelly@nebula.tbe.com Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:40:41 -0800 (PST) Cc: kstewart@3-cities.com, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to David Kelly: > Kent Stewart writes: > > They have templates for WP. You just get the Avery Wizard with Office. Every > > package of letter sized Avery Labels that I have purchased also had a set of > > instructions for using all of the Word Processors. You do have WP for > > FreeBSD. > > Actually, I don't. The Powers That Be won't fork out $50 for it. They > without giving it a second thought they threw wads of money at Microsoft > for NT and Office97 Pro. Corel's license agreement lets me use WP8 at > home, but not at work. http://linux.corel.com/linux8/agreement.htm > > The whole thing is, NT can't dupe tapes worth a hoot. FreeBSD loafs > along running 4 instances of tcopy, reading disk file, writing 4 tapes > (launch it from a script so all 4 instances are reading from the same > file at the same time then 3 get to read from cache. It also works if > each is started separately and the file is physically read 4 times.) If > I can generate labels in FreeBSD then I won't have to reboot just to > print the stinking labels. > > Hmm. How's wine these days? Maybe it'll run the Avery label program... > :-) > > If I wasn't always in such a hurry, I'd write something in TCL/TK. Saw > where TK has a display element or something (can't think of the name > used) which appears to map easily into Postscript. > This kind of thing:: printing labels or custom business cards; or info on 3x5-inch cards--or whatever--seems like a need awaiting a solution for those of us in the non-DOS world. TK or something graphic and intuitive would seem better than spending decades learning troff :-). gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message