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 =2Ewprc 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. =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 > <P>Thank you for registering Corel=AE WordPerfect=AE 8 for Linux=AE! </P> >=20 > <P>The following registration key will allow you to unlock the product fo= r unlimited usage. Thank you for taking the time to register, and please re= member to visit <A HREF=3D"http://linux.corel.com">Linux.Corel.com</A>; for = further updates on Corel and Linux.</P> >=20 > <P><STRONG>Your registration key is:</STRONG></P> >=20 > <table><tr><td>LW8XW-npQ9jnNtbj</td></tr></table> >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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