Subject: Re: Linux Word Perfect Office 2000 on NetBSD?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/31/2001 16:19:42
Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact that Microsoft
has invested in Corel?
-Mike
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:35:15 -0600
> Subject: Re: Linux Word Perfect Office 2000 on NetBSD?
> In message <200110312210.f9VMAEo06568@shed11.mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Duncan McEwan writ
> es:
> >Rather than spend time trying to work around that problem we decided to upgrad
> >e
> >to WP Office 2000. My strategy was to install it on a linux box and then copy
> >the files that were installed over to our NetBSD systems.
> Hah! It's all Windows binaries that require Wine. You lose. Corel says
> "screw you guys, we hate Unixes."
>
> -s