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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!melbourne.DIALix.oz.au!seeware!news From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Subject: Re: WordPerfect for FreeBSD Sender: news@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost Organization: SeeWare Software Message-ID: <DHwuIC.xE@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <47og92$dru@nntp.stanford.edu> <47phhh$g59@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 03:18:11 GMT Lines: 30 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 -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+