Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:54:11 +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: <19981218205411.C486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812181014.CAA03076@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 02:14:36AM -0800 References: <19981218204151.B486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812181014.CAA03076@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 2:14:36 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Do you remember which version you had installed? >> >> No. All I have is the following: >> >> $ ls -l /compat/linux/ >> total 1 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Apr 11 1997 .linux_lib-version > > And what does this file contain? "2.6 " It now also has the following info: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Oct 24 19:28 /compat/linux/.linux_lib-version What I sent you was before I installed the new version (it was in a window I hadn't accessed since). >> I think we can agree it was ancient enough. > > '96 is bad, yes. Agreed. >>> If you don't know what the icons do, point at one for a couple of >>> seconds and it will tell you. >> >> Sure. Read http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/d-advocate.html for my >> take on this approach. > > Read the manual then, sourpuss. Why should I? I'm quite happy with the tools I have :-() >>> I'm unhappy at the paucity of keyboard shortcuts for things, but I >>> understand you can roll these to suit, and it's certainly a pretty >>> tolerable WYSIWYG HTML editor. I'll put up the results of the >>> evening's work shortly and you can pick its code apart. >> >> I'll be interested. So far it looks pretty professional, and before >> the days of Windoze (about 10 years ago) WordPerfect was my favourite >> word processor, so I don't want to be too prejudiced. > > I think it's a pretty good WP. I've characterised the HTML bug I'm > seeing, and it looks pretty basic, which is a bad sign as far as that > part of the package is concerned. 8( I must do some thinking about what I did with word processors 10 years ago. I gave up Word Perfect 4.2 round the time I got my first laser printer, because it didn't handle proportional fonts. I briefly tried Microsoft Word, which was (even then) the biggest disaster I had ever experienced, and then went on to Borland's Sprint (used to be Mark of the Unicorn's ``Final Word''). It was so buggy that I ended up trying TeX, and the rest is history. 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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