From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 29 04:42:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA09692 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.telstra.com.au (mail.telstra.com.au [192.148.160.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09684 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail_gw.fwall.telecom.com.au(192.148.147.10) by mail via smap (V1.3) id sma022244; Fri Mar 29 15:46:55 1996 Received: from netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au(144.139.63.32) by mail_gw.telecom.com.au via smap (V1.3) id sma021361; Fri Mar 29 22:35:32 1996 Received: from netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au [144.139.63.32]) by netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA27090; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:45:04 +0800 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:44:59 +0800 (WST) From: Terry Dwyer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Michael Smith , mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl? In-Reply-To: <4819.828022663@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. _-_|\ Terry Dwyer E-Mail: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au / \ System Administrator Phone: +61 9 491 5161 Fax: +61 9 221 2631 *_.^\_/ Telecom Australia Telstra Corporation MIME capable mailer v Perth WA ( I do not speak for Telstra or Telecom )