Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:44:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again Wordperfect.. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000706103713.6867A-100000@spectre.honk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007060953290.640-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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Heh - at least you didn't try to install Wordperfect Office 2000... < windows binary running under WINE - blech. > It installs and runs beautifully under Corel Linux, but be prepared to lose *lots* of hair trying to run it on any other platform! With WP8, did you install it as root, or as a specific user? I think their rationale goes something like this: Multi-user machines should install it as root, then each user will be able to register and run their own instance of WP. This would explain the .wprc files being created all over the place - they are assuming <incorrectly, no doubt> that users will be running it from their own home directory. If you install it as a specific user, I seem to remember that it will install the binaries into the user's home directory, and only that particular user can run it. Kludgy at best, but IMO it's still the best WYSIWYG worprocessor for Unix. Still waiting for KDE 2.0 to come out so I can try KOffice... - M - On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Hi, its maybe a "question", and more a "question" than a "newbie > question", but I can put it as a "newbie observation", and as there are > so many very content users of this nearly perfect wordprocessor here: > > When I open xwp (from the command line) from another directory than ~/, > it creates its .wpcr directory there. Wordperfect, is it so stupid or > did I just overlook something ? Is there any way to force it to find its > ~/.wprc ? > > Never seen something like that. > > And it looks as if each user has to register wp. Not the best way of > promotion... Corel Draw....which had a bad reputation, now I know why. > > And another question, Windowsbashing: somebody sent me something from > Westlaw, some of his articles, three files, but it arrived as one big > "winmail.dat". What is this ? A progress in computer technology or the > contrary ? Rethorical question. Anyway, any way to decipher this ? > It was difficult enough to transfer those articles, so I dont want to > bother this windows person in California with this. > > H. > > PS, Dataminerbashing, it worked with bla@bla.bla, anyway: > > > > <P>Thank you for registering Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux®! </P> > > <P>The following registration key will allow you to unlock the product for unlimited usage. Thank you for taking the time to register, and please remember to visit <A HREF="http://linux.corel.com">Linux.Corel.com</A>; for further updates on Corel and Linux.</P> > > <P><STRONG>Your registration key is:</STRONG></P> > > <table><tr><td>LW8XW-npQ9jnNtbj</td></tr></table> > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the messagehelp
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