Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:44:59 +0800 (WST) From: Terry Dwyer <tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.90.960329203536.26994A-100000@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4819.828022663@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hmmm. I followed each step explicitly, but this was under -current
> and not -stable, so I wonder if that had something to do with it.
>
> Various things feel over left and right, and when I installed
> everything carefully by hand (after reading their installation script
> to see what it would have done), I got apps that ran but complained
> mightily about missing fonts and such (which were installed, and I set
> their little environment variables up to point to them as per
> instructions). I then composed a detailed log of my experiences,
> send them to the bug reporting address and never got anything back.
> Jordan
I saw WYSIWYG word processor and grabbed it immediately - what a
disapointment. I followed the instructions to the letter and chose a dir
to install in (as root) and a language. It worked flawlessly first off
under 2.1.0R. Well I did have one problem during importing an ASCII file
into Xcl, a seg fault.
I would not race out and buy either of these products, the WP is
incomprehensible and the spreadsheet is inadequate. There is absolutely
no help - even a plain text file. I like Wingz much more although it
suffers from the inability to import comma or quote delimited ascii files
Into the bit bucket with it, IMHO don't waste your time.
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