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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: Suggested port: Maxwell editor
In-Reply-To: <19980726094651.15221@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jul 26, 98 09:46:51 am"
To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT)
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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


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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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