From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 16:26:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09750 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles151.castles.com [208.214.165.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09745 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01579; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812200024.QAA01579@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:19:00 MST." <4.1.19981219171741.06dad040@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:24:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At 03:25 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >I'm looking at their port's Makefile at the moment; it's a bit fragile > >in that it assumes that the user reads their instructions and installs > >it into /usr/local/corel. > > Gee, that's a bit egotistical -- putting themselves right under > /usr/local instead of in, say, /usr/local/etc/corel (which would > follow the convention used by apache and others). Not sure if I mislead you here; they recommend installation of the entire packge in /usr/local/corel; we do this with the Acrobat Reader but not Netscape, which lives in /usr/local/lib (where I plan to put WordPerfect). At any rate, I'm working on this now. -- \\ 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