Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6334 ; Fri, 08 Jan 93 02:07:11 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey) Subject: Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD? In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Sat, 9 Jan 93 21:42:55 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Jan8233844@superego.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:38:44 GMT Lines: 40 >>>>> In article <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: Terry> In article <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs) writes: >I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good >folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD. >So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what >is that, system 5?) Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD? [useful answers about binary compatibility...] Terry> If you have X going, there has been a lot of recent work on the WYSIWYG Terry> editor that comes with InterViews(sp?), and that may be your best bet Terry> (unless you didn't want an editor to edit, but just to have WP). Yes, 'doc' is intended for many of the same purposes as WP. The binary distribution and patches are on agate.berkeley.edu (128.32.136.1) in pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/x-apps/InterViews and README-iv3.1-386bsd has more info. Here's a description of doc. Rich Doc is a WYSIWYG document editor. In addition to text, doc contains a simple table editor, and it can import graphics generated by the drawing editor Idraw and several types of rasterized images. The editor's functionality and terminology is modeled loosely after the LaTeX document preparation system. In particular, doc stores its documents in a format that is reminiscent of LaTeX; you can translate many LaTeX documents into doc format with relatively little effort. Doc is styled as a technical paper preparation tool. It supports floating figures, cross-referencing, section and figure numbering, page numbering, user-defined macros and user-defined styles. Currently, however, it does not include an equation formatting facility or indexing. Doc uses high-quality TeX formatting algorithms and precise PostScript font metrics (where available). The TeX algorithms are able to find pleasing line and page breaks for most documents; where necessary, you can guide the formatter by inserting discretionary breaks. With care, you can expect a high-quality final document.