From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 15 21:38:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA25117 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-72.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA25101 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA11399; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:48 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:47 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Wes Peters cc: zaphod@imailbox.com, Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help In-Reply-To: <349602F0.AB752703@xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > jtkipp@students.wisc.edu replied: > > Wow! I never knew it had half of those features! I ran WP 5.1 on a > > 286/8/640k the only catch was if you typed to fast, the computer would get > > behind when you reached the end of a line... and saving and searching were > > painfully slow... I love WP 5.1, Is the source available? No, I thought > > not... Even a look-a-like with the same features for FreeBSD would be > > really cool. > > There is a version of WP6.0 (The X/Motif version) for Caldera Linux; > will it run under emulation on FreeBSD? I think a trial version > comes on the OpenLinux Lite CD, which Caldera gives away like popcorn > at trade shows. I've got two or three, if you don't have one I can > send you one. ;^) I'm talking 5.1. WP6 and 7 both are really much worse IMO. Although for a GUI word processor, they're fairly nice, but I still like the quickness and smallness (fits in less than 5 megs) of 5.1 for DOS. Is that touted SCO version text or GUI? - alex