From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 14:08:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA04756 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:08:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from garman.dyn.ml.org (pm106-01.dialip.mich.net [192.195.231.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA04732 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garman@earthling.net) Received: (qmail 2096 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 1997 22:07:41 -0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:07:40 -0500 From: garman@phs.k12.ar.us To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WordPerfect 7.0 for SCO References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: garman@earthling.net X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (70% of Full) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 2.2-STABLE In-Reply-To: ; from Khetan Gajjar on Nov 19, 1997 02:10:08 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar writes: > Hi. > > I've bought myself a copy of WordPerfect 7.0 for SCO OpenServer 5. > I was wondering if it was possible to install this - I've tried the > GUI installation, but it just core dumps (bus error), and the text version > mutters about incorrect terminal emulation. > you can run the Linux version of WP7.0 with no problem on FreeBSD (I have it open right now). Never tried the SCO version. To make sure, you can download an "evaluation" copy from their site. it is in ftp.turbolinux.com:/pub/linux/corelwp if i remember correctly. enjoy, -- Jason Garman http://garman.home.ml.org/ Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net "A friend in Campus Parking is a True Friend Indeed." -- me