Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:39:49 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert) Cc: andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU, dgilbert@velocet.ca, freebsd-emulators@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <200005152339.QAA11463@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <14624.35092.234693.852141@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "May 15, 0 07:32:36 pm"
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As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > I think I also got further with the installation when I copied the cd > to disk and did some editing on the install script, but I forget what > I was doing. > > Whatever wine is doing is not 100% compatible with the FreeBSD > emulation, though. I can get Quattro Pro to run, but it malfunctions > in many ways. Word perfect won't run --- it dies trying to play some > sound. > > Since Corel Linux won't run under VMWare, I'm going to try to get > debian installed on VMWare to install this stuff and at least see it > running. > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. About a year ago, I asked Corel if they planned a native FreeBSD port of WordPerfect Suite 8. They said not at the time, but they were keeping track of the number of requests they had for other platforms. Perhaps it is time for us to write in, en mass. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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