From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 19 18:06:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19185 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:06:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles151.castles.com [208.214.165.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19180 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05441; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812200203.SAA05441@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Peter Hawkins , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, custserv2@corel.ca Subject: Re: Howto: wordperfect 8 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:57:06 PST." <199812200157.RAA04126@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:03:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Corel released wp 8 for linux this week and after some playing I managed to > > make it run. the 90 day free trial version is at http://www.downloads.com. > > It will read your word documents and provides as good or better functionality > > than Word IMHO. > > Not quite as good, but perhaps more reliable. It does a barely > tolerable job of reading Word documents. ... according to third-party comments I've read to date. > > 5. The Runme installer fails so to install do the following in the directory > > from which you did step 4 above: > > > > cd linux/bin > > cat mwp?? > mwp > > cd ../../shared > > foreach i ( sf5028 sf5128 prs_b prs_g prs5028 prs5128 ) > > cp ${i}.us ${i}c.us > > done > > cd .. > > ln -s shared/install.wp . > > ./install.wp > > The Runme installer works fine, again if you're using the > single-large-file download. Note that in that case there is no "linux/ > bin" directory. Whoops, fact error; there is indeed a linux/bin directory. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message