From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 09:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09267 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09227 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA14731; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:03:15 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id LAA10193; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:03:13 -0600 (CST) To: Jeff Zhen Chi Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: compatibility of FreeBSD References: <199803051636.IAA05235@arcadia.hal.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 05 Mar 1998 11:03:12 -0600 In-Reply-To: Jeff Zhen Chi's message of "Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:36:46 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <87iuptjcj3.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Zhen Chi writes: > Magic 6.5 (This is a mask layout editor) > Spice simulator > Netscape 4.04 > Perl > Ghostview > > Magic and spice are especially important, so that I want to confirm >if those will work fine. All of these are available in source form thus and can be compiled natively under FreeBSD (oh--well, except netscape but there is a native freebsd binary of netscape available). In particular, in the "ports" collection i see magic and spice. You can browse the current status of the ports directory at: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message