Subject: Re: My prayers have been heared!
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/17/1999 14:54:26
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> " I installed the FrameMaker beta version. It starts to run, then
> core dumps. The readme file mentioned that it was tested on
> RedHat 6.1; perhaps I need to upgrade the OS...
>
> ... of course, I suppose I could be more eager to do this. Also
> in the FrameMaker readme file, under the category of "Known Bugs",
> was something along the lines of: navigational keys don't work
> (i.e. Pg Up, Pg Dn, Home, End, arrow keys). Hmmm. You think those
> might be important for some word processing software?"
Tell your friend to that it works on stock NetBSD 1.4.1/i386, if you
install the suse_linux package, and start portmap with the "-i" flag
(important). I have no problems with Pg Up etc. keys here either.
[Insert rant about quality of Linux and superiority of NetBSD here :-]
- Hubert
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