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From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Commercial Wordprocessor?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 18:33:22 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
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In article <DLpA5t.HHz@ritz.mordor.com>,
   ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
>Andrew Atrens (atrens@bmerh8bf.bnr.ca) wrote:
>: 
>: Hi all,
>: 
>: Does anyone have ideas on how to run a commercial wordprocessor on a
>: FreeBSD box?
>: 
>: I'd be interested in hearing of *any* working solutions for this.
>
>I haven't tried this, but....
>
>If you could find a BSDI version of Framemaker, that stands a
>reasonable chance of working (for BSDI 1.0, that is).
>
>What's wrong with emacs?  :-)
>
>Chris

	What about WordPerfect for Linux ? Does this work under Freebsd/Linux 
emulation ?

				Cheers,

				Dan Ts'o
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