Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:41:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <19981219124134.S486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 07:07:08PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812171134560.19059-100000@harlie.bfd.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812181857050.250-100000@falcon.hinterlands. com> <4.1.19981218190442.06d2c190@mail.lariat.org>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 19:07:08 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:58 PM 12/18/98 -0700, Mike Jackson wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: >>> Just in case anyone wants to be a little more sure before they download >>> 23MB, yes, the just-released Corel WP 8 for Linux works fine under >>> 2.2.8-RELEASE. There is one minor glitch in the install if you download >>> the seperate files, and that is you need to lowercase the filenames after >>> un-gzipping them. >>> >>> O.K., so the font selection isn't great, but Corel claims that it will >>> work with any T1 font that the X server has properly installed, and we've >>> got a port that makes all the Ghostscript T1 fonts available to X, so that >>> should improve once I've played around with it a little more. >>> >>> For those that don't know, see http://linux.corel.com >>> >> >> I can confirm that this works on 3.0-CURRENT. I did have some trouble >> getting the install script to run, but when I ran it from >> /compat/linux/bin/sh it ran fine. > > How about writing (and posting) a script Well, the correct way to do this is with a port > that invokes the installer There's nothing special there, except that it has this crazy DOS-based idea of letting you decide where the binaries go. > properly lowercases the filenames if required, Not required. I'm not sure under which scenario you'd expect to change file names. > and BRANDS THE BINARIES? Not required. > It'd be great to have this available so that reviewers and newbies > don't have trouble. And if it were shown to the Corel folks, perhaps > they could detect FreeBSD and install accordingly. There's really nothing FreeBSD-specific in the install. As I said, the only decision is where to put the files. And that applies just as much to Linux. 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-chat" in the body of the message
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