From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 16:16:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05264 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05149 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA00234; Thu, 9 May 1996 08:46:15 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605082316.IAA00234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: word processor To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 08:46:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU In-Reply-To: from "Charles Owens" at May 8, 96 10:37:00 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charles Owens stands accused of saying: > > > > Lyrix == noname. He renamed it. Get the noname README from > > wcarchive.cdrom.com, /pub/FreeBSD/incoming. > > I know that the URL in my message ends with LyriX.html, but the document > itself is about the product "LyX". Its written by Matthias Ettrich, with > contributions from others. These developers are coming out with new > releases all of the time (ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx/devel/), with the > latest carrying versions number like 0.9.x . I'm running 0.8.6 which is > supposedly the current "stable" release. > > The impression that I get is that this is not the same thing as the > LyriX to which you refer. *sigh*. The product was originally called "Lyrix", however SCO already have a (pathetic) wordprocessor called "lyrix", so the product temporarily became "noname", and now it's called "LyX". You're all talking about the same thing. > Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[