Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:14:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199812181014.CAA03076@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:41:51 %2B1030." <19981218204151.B486@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >> I didn't check the version of linux_lib, but it was ancient. I > >> installed the new version, and at least now it produces a display and > >> seems to be working. Of course, it's full of these silly icons which > >> don't mean anything to me, so I suppose I'll have to get Yvonne to > >> decipher it for me. > > > > Do you remember which version you had installed? > > No. All I have is the following: > > $ ls -l /compat/linux/ > total 1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Apr 11 1997 .linux_lib-version And what does this file contain? > -rw-r--r-- 1 grog wheel 118 Dec 21 1997 Adreßbuch.url > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 27 1996 bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 25 02:40 etc > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 15 1997 lib > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 26 1996 sbin > drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Dec 12 1996 usr > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 27 1996 var > > I think we can agree it was ancient enough. '96 is bad, yes. > > If you don't know what the icons do, point at one for a couple of > > seconds and it will tell you. > > Sure. Read http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/d-advocate.html for my > take on this approach. Read the manual then, sourpuss. > > I'm unhappy at the paucity of keyboard shortcuts for things, but I > > understand you can roll these to suit, and it's certainly a pretty > > tolerable WYSIWYG HTML editor. I'll put up the results of the > > evening's work shortly and you can pick its code apart. > > I'll be interested. So far it looks pretty professional, and before > the days of Windoze (about 10 years ago) WordPerfect was my favourite > word processor, so I don't want to be too prejudiced. I think it's a pretty good WP. I've characterised the HTML bug I'm seeing, and it looks pretty basic, which is a bad sign as far as that part of the package is concerned. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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