From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 6 7:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from spectre.honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.175.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9648E37C375 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 07:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre.honk.org (mpoulin@spectre.honk.org [24.42.175.137]) by spectre.honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA06888; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:44:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:44:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again Wordperfect.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 =2Ewprc files being created all over the place - they are assuming 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. =20 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...=20 - 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: >=20 > 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 ? >=20 > Never seen something like that. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > H. >=20 > PS, Dataminerbashing, it worked with bla@bla.bla, anyway: >=20 >=20 >=20 >

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