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From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for FreeBSD
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 03:18:11 GMT
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In article <47phhh$g59@park.uvsc.edu>,
	Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>andrsn@Hoover.Stanford.EDU (Annelise Anderson) wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in whether WordPerfect can run on FreeBSD--perhaps
>> the SUN OS version?
>> 
>> Or some other comparable word processor.
>
>The Linux X11 version runs on FreeBSD if you load the Linux
>compatability package.
>
>

Do you mean the SCO Wordperfect version?  If so, I
seem to remember trying this once but running into 
problems with some missing device, (/dev/X0 or something
like that).

I gave up pretty fast and it was a while ago....

/mark

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