From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 6 20:16:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9316637B419 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp228.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.244] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16u461-0006cn-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:16:06 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D91050B8D; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:18:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:18:30 -0500 From: parv To: Eric Cc: f-stable Subject: Re: wordperfect Message-ID: <20020407041830.GB96971@moo.holy.cow> Reply-To: f-q Mail-Followup-To: Eric , f-stable References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (changed followups to -questions, from -stable, where it belongs) in message , wrote Eric thusly... > ... > Can someone who has successfully installed WordPerfect 8 (or 9?) to FBSD > please let me know > > 1. Does the performance meet production standards, > 2. Any tips for installation, and ... consider the following to be a tip. or, a rant. your choice. xwp can be a PITA when invoked from xterm (as compared to when invoked from root menu of a window manager). consider i am in /usr/home/parv; i create a subdirectory ./tmp. i invoke xwp in /usr/home/parv from xterm. now, if i try to save a file in ./tmp, xwp complains about missing files. if i happen to be in /usr/home/parv when the first i started xwp, registration key is saved there. if i, by misfortune, happen to be in /usr/home/parv/tmp & start xwp from there, i will be asked for the registration key & ".wprc" directory will be created in /usr/home/parv/tmp. so far, wherever i saved a file, a .wprc directory was created. talk about the sheep droppings[0]! now, i consciously try to avoid starting xwp from the command line and use root menu (in fvwm2) to launch xwp. oh, if i happened not to be in /usr/home/parv when i started[1] X, too bad... [0] in case you don't know, sheep droppings are in small black round balls; generally aligned in a line as sheep walks & poops. [1] the working directory is inherited in X (from console) if not properly taken care of, say in xinitrc. if you start X from /tmp, you will see & be in that directory when you start xterm, for example. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message