Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: giffunip@asme.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested port: Maxwell editor Message-ID: <199807260011.RAA00774@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <19980726094651.15221@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jul 26, 98 09:46:51 am"
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According to Sue Blake: > 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*- > > FWIW, I've just volunteered my hundreds of bitmap (*.bfd) fonts to them. I'd be willing to put in some time on this end of the wp project. StarOffice's font-set is a bit sorry, and the XEmacs interface too obscure to get my fonts to work. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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