Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:55:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981218185524.Y486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812180811.AAA02303@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:11:24AM -0800 References: <19981218163944.V486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812180811.AAA02303@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 0:11:24 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Thursday, 17 December 1998 at 20:01:51 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I downloaded the free WordPerfect for Linux today from download.com and >>>> installed it on my 2.2.8-Stable (a week or so ago) machine. It came right up >>>> without any problem. The install was flawless. >>> >>> I must report very good success with Word Perfect as well. I am so pleased >>> with WordPerfect that I must now say goodbye to StarOffice, and (TA DA) >>> WORD. Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch... >> >> Hmm. I've just installed it, which worked fine, and looked quite >> professional, but it SIGSEGVs when I try to run it. I'll look at it >> when I have time, but if anybody else sees something like this and has >> a solution, I'd be interested in hearing it. > > It's running fine here; should be OK on 2.2.5 and later (perhaps even > 2.2.2) - I'm using it now to write some HTML describing in painful > detail everything that's involved in making it work. > > All the usual crap - make sure your LKM's in sync, check you have > linux_lib 2.4 or later installed, etc. I didn't check the version of linux_lib, but it was ancient. I installed the new version, and at least now it produces a display and seems to be working. Of course, it's full of these silly icons which don't mean anything to me, so I suppose I'll have to get Yvonne to decipher it for me. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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