From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 2 13:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12403 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12388 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-48.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA04911 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:51:51 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA02214; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:17:18 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:17:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609022017.WAA02214@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: "L. S. Colby" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: itcl and star office In-Reply-To: <3227A4A5.1142F1CE@ibm.net> References: <3227A4A5.1142F1CE@ibm.net> Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk L. S. Colby writes: > Hello: > > Is a port of itcl 2.1 planned? If so is there a time frame? > > Star office has been ported to linux as an elf exe requiring motif > runtimes or perhaps lestiff. I managed to install and run Star Office using the Linux emulator and a pre-compiled Lesstif library. It is not very stable (but it was announced as a pre-BETA), and speed is comparable to the early UNIX versions of Wordperfect (slooow ...) But at least Star Office allows me to load and edit a Word document under FreeBSD. Though I did not yet manage to print anything, which would have been one of my major uses. (There are quite a few Word ".doc" files floating around, since some vendors seem to assume, this was the ultimate exchange format :) Do not underestimate the effort to install Star Office! It takes at least 60MB of disk space, and you better have 32MB of RAM if you really intend to start it ... Regards, STefan