Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:28:00 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199902111928.NAA13679@PeeCee.tbe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:13:25 PST." <36C31DC5.9C37000B@3-cities.com>
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Kent Stewart writes: > They have templates for WP. You just get the Avery Wizard with Office. Every > package of letter sized Avery Labels that I have purchased also had a set of > instructions for using all of the Word Processors. You do have WP for > FreeBSD. Actually, I don't. The Powers That Be won't fork out $50 for it. They without giving it a second thought they threw wads of money at Microsoft for NT and Office97 Pro. Corel's license agreement lets me use WP8 at home, but not at work. http://linux.corel.com/linux8/agreement.htm The whole thing is, NT can't dupe tapes worth a hoot. FreeBSD loafs along running 4 instances of tcopy, reading disk file, writing 4 tapes (launch it from a script so all 4 instances are reading from the same file at the same time then 3 get to read from cache. It also works if each is started separately and the file is physically read 4 times.) If I can generate labels in FreeBSD then I won't have to reboot just to print the stinking labels. Hmm. How's wine these days? Maybe it'll run the Avery label program... :-) If I wasn't always in such a hurry, I'd write something in TCL/TK. Saw where TK has a display element or something (can't think of the name used) which appears to map easily into Postscript. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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