From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 12 21:37:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C6637BC59 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 21:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime.exit.com [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA46107; Fri, 12 May 2000 21:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA79720; Fri, 12 May 2000 21:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200005130437.VAA79720@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: Linux Wordperfect on 4.0-STABLE (specific issue) In-Reply-To: <391CD8D2.4BA978D6@3-cities.com> from Kent Stewart at "May 12, 2000 09:23:46 pm" To: Kent Stewart Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart wrote: > Check the archives. WP8/Linux starts in about 2 seconds when you have > everything right. There are conflicts when you have ports closed and > it hangs trying to connect to a service or something. There was a > comment by Grog and a follow up by the person with a similar problem. > It had to be here on stable in the last week or so. > > FWIW, I installed the commercial release on 4.0-Stable in the last > week. ...speaking of which, has anyone been able to get WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux to work under FreeBSD (4-stable)? It's sitting in this box over here, and it would be nice to be able to install and run the thing. I _was_ chagrined to find out that it's really WPO 2k for _Windows_, running under Wine, of all things. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message