From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 17:48:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24658 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24649 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA27589; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:17:57 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609170047.KAA27589@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Question on Porting Windows software to X To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:17:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Khetan Gajjar" at Sep 16, 96 10:40:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying: > > On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > >Looking at a larger word processing application for windows (16bit not 32) > >like Word 6, WordPerfict 6 or WordStar. What do would you all think the > > Well, afaik, WordPerfect 6 is available for SCO Unix; with the > improved ibcs2 in -current, we can run the app fine - it's the ruddy Flex > License manager we can't get working. I'd pay for someone to get THAT > working! Has there been any progress on that ? > > Is/Has someone contacted Flex about it ? I tried, but they said sorry, > it's for SCO - not BSD. That's "Globetrotter", not "Flex". And the FlexLM is legendarily difficult to deal with. I've had reasonably helpful words with Globetrotter before, and I expect to again (I hope) later this year when they bring Flex out for Linux. (We use a Linux product that on other platforms is Flex'ed) Having said all that, I believe that the issues with the WP6 license manager were iBCS2 emulation problems, and that they were fixed some time back. (Nate?) > Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[