Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:21:06 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au>, custserv2@corel.ca Subject: Howto: wordperfect 8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812201145480.10608-100000@dana.clari.net.au>
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Ever wanted to turn that little dos partition into a swap partition? Well now is your chance and while you're at it you'll be helping to make your stand against OS monopolies by supporting Corel in what is a brave and commendable move. Corel released wp 8 for linux this week and after some playing I managed to make it run. the 90 day free trial version is at http://www.downloads.com. It will read your word documents and provides as good or better functionality than Word IMHO. I am using: FreeBSD 3.0 stable, X11R6 (latest release) Unfortunately it does not install as documented but you can do it anyway as follows: 1. download the kit, either as one large file or as the 7 component files 2. Check that you have linux emulation on as follows: modstat you should see a line something like this: EXEC 0 0 f8bbd000 0020 f8bc4010 1 linux_mod If linux_mod is there, go to step 3. If you do not have linux emulation on, install the linux emulation kit (/usr/ports/emulators/linux_lib) and load the emulator by setting linux_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf and (to save a reboot) typing: /usr/bin/linux" 3. start X11 (startx) if it is not already running 4. the distribution is *not* gzcompressed despite the extensions and the documentation. Just use tar xvf to extract the kit. (if you get it as seven separate parts, each is a separate tar file and untar them all separately: foreach i (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) tar xvf GUI0${i}.GZ done 5. The Runme installer fails so to install do the following in the directory from which you did step 4 above: cd linux/bin cat mwp?? > mwp cd ../../shared foreach i ( sf5028 sf5128 prs_b prs_g prs5028 prs5128 ) cp ${i}.us ${i}c.us done cd .. ln -s shared/install.wp . ./install.wp 6. (a) Don't attempt to install non-us dictionaries or thesauruses - if you can work out how let me know! They do not seem to be there for me. (b) ignore the warnings about files not being found (c) ignore the lack of printer drivers in the menu and continue without installing a printer - it seems to install them all anyway (at least it did for me) 7. Use the trial version until you are convinced it's the best word processor around (approx 10 minutes) then I would strongly urge you to register your copy at https://livewire.corel.com/wp8LinuxReg/register.html - For less than $70 you can save yourself $$$ in updating corel's competitor program, add the dos partition as a swap partition and get more memory for your box and show the world's software houses that taking a punt on FreeBSD/Linux can pay off. Peter Clarinet Internet Solutions Peter Hawkins 381 Swan St Richmond, Vic, Australia Ph: +61-3-9421 2006 Fax: +61-3-9421 2007 http://www.clari.net.au Peter@clari.net.au FreeBSD Project: thepish@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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