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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Word processor type application for freebsd/xwin Date: 14 May 1996 19:10:13 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4nalql$jnf@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <eng-sc.831390815@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au> <01bb407a.00618740$257847cc@quark.quanta.com> <4na6bv$ei1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <4na6bv$ei1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, John Fieber <jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> wrote: >I believe that linux users running WordPerfect are running the SCO >version which does in fact use Motif, but is statically linked so it >matters not whether you have Motif. There are two different versions of WordPerfect available for Linux. One of them is a native Linux version, and the other one is the SCO version. The Linux *native* version of Word Perfect might work under FreeBSD's Linux emulation. Check out http://www.caldera.com or http://www.caldera.com/whatsnew/cio_rel.html . Look for the "Caldera Office Suite". >FreeBSD's sco emulation is not >good enough to run the SCO WordPerfect. >I started to look at the problem, but using ktrace on the license >manager causes a panic and reboot in the May 1st snapshot. Oh well. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu