From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 25 16:47:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16116 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16106 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA15698; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:46:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980726094651.15221@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:46:51 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: giffunip@asme.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested port: Maxwell editor References: <19980725224352.4061.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980725224352.4061.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>; from Pedro Giffuni on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 03:43:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 03:43:52PM -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > It looks good, it was supposed to go commercial but it never made it > so the code is GPL'd now: > > http://www.eeyore-mule.demon.co.uk/ Definitely! I played with this a couple of months ago (under Linux emulation), thinking it looks like a nice light-weight MS-word and RTF reader/writer taking less than 2 megs of disk! There were no plans to release the source code then, but now I see there's even a support mailing list. I found that it could not deal with both RTF and Word2 (or Word6) files properly. I think (memory foggy here) it could read but not write them on my system. Only its own format was OK for both reading and saving. If these problems were not due to my own newbie errors, Maxwell might need a bit of work before becoming a very popular addition to the ports collection. Just the sort of thing we need to get FreeBSD onto small workstations and home computers. Any takers? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message