From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 27 06:53:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19968 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000 (billf@[206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19945 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000 with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA019597563; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:52:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested port: Maxwell editor In-Reply-To: <19980726094651.15221@welearn.com.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I could actually use this at work, I'll take a look at it. On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > 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: > 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. > > Any takers? bill fumerola [root/billf]@chc-chimes.com computer horizons corp - www.computerhorizons.com ph:(800)252.2421 x128 / bill_fumerola@computerhorizons.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message