Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:32:53 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Message-ID: <19981028223253.64707@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19981027131745.M20920@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 01:17:45PM %2B1030 References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810261959440.7308-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> <19981027131745.M20920@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 01:17:45PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 20:04:03 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>and submit feedback politely asking them to consider a FreeBSD native port, or >>to endeavour that the Linux version is runnable under emulation. > >Why do that? The Linux version should work, <snip> StarOffice. As far as I can make out (only having run it infrequently), that was a great example of how to (gratuitously ?) write something that wasn't compatible with the emulator. I recall source code patches for /proc running around so the thing could pick up its arguments, because for some bizarre reason it didn't parse **argv. Or something like that anyway. I hope Linux WP8 will run without a hitch on FreeBSD's Linux emulation. It gives me one more reason not to have to install NT on my scratch box. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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