Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:55:24 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "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:  <19981218185524.Y486@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812180811.AAA02303@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:11:24AM -0800
References:  <19981218163944.V486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812180811.AAA02303@dingo.cdrom.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Friday, 18 December 1998 at  0:11:24 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> On Thursday, 17 December 1998 at 20:01:51 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Paul T. Root wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>	I downloaded the free WordPerfect for Linux today from download.com and
>>>> installed it on my 2.2.8-Stable (a week or so ago) machine. It came right up
>>>> without any problem. The install was flawless.
>>>
>>> I must report very good success with Word Perfect as well. I am so pleased
>>> with WordPerfect that I must now say goodbye to StarOffice, and (TA DA)
>>> WORD. Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch...
>>
>> Hmm.  I've just installed it, which worked fine, and looked quite
>> professional, but it SIGSEGVs when I try to run it.  I'll look at it
>> when I have time, but if anybody else sees something like this and has
>> a solution, I'd be interested in hearing it.
>
> It's running fine here; should be OK on 2.2.5 and later (perhaps even
> 2.2.2) - I'm using it now to write some HTML describing in painful
> detail everything that's involved in making it work.
>
> All the usual crap - make sure your LKM's in sync, check you have
> linux_lib 2.4 or later installed, etc.

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.

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-emulation" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981218185524.Y486>