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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:13:11 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl?
Message-ID:  <199603280843.TAA16196@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3777.827996761@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 27, 96 11:06:01 pm

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> 
> > I downloaded this, it's not half-bad, for the little bit I've been 
> > playing with it.  FreeBSD specific version as well.
> 
> Huh - the installation totally fell over and I was unable to get
> either to really work all that well.  I sent them a long list of bugs
> and this also went into the void.

Strange.  Under -stable the install was painless and both run quite
OK.  I can't comment on bugs; they don't support 16bpp so they went
back into the archive.  The demo versions expire in three days anyway.

> I was so unimpressed with their degree of support for this that I
> nuked them back out of the commercial section of our web pages.  I'll
> be happy to add them back if and when they ever start responding to
> email!

For this you could mention that the Xess spreadsheet Linux version runs
just fine under -stable's Linux emulation.  It looks like a pretty nice
spreadsheet (not being an expert on such things...)

> 						Jordan
> 


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