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From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: the same old question....
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:32:45 -0500
Organization: Nortel Technology (formerly Bell Northern Research)
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Hi Folks,
Has anyone found a commercial wordprocessor that will work under
FreeBSD ?
I periodically post a question like this in hopes that the state of
the world has changed. :)
I'd really like to be able to use a commercial wordprocessor under
FreeBSD. ( Actually, my wife would really like to use a professional
wordprocessor, without having to reboot into Windows :( )
Recently I discovered that Caldera has a wordperfect/motif bundle for
their flavour of Linux ( this is probably old news, but *news* to me ).
What chance is there that this thing will run on a FBSD box in
Linux emulation mode?
Any help or suggestions or comments would be appreciated...
btw. not to offend emac'rs out there, but emacs isn't really what I
had in mind. ;)
Cheers,
Andrew.
( Opinions are mine, not those of any employer past or present. )