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From: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for SCO?
Date: 5 Mar 1996 04:25:07 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)

In article <4ha9f5$af@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Brian Beattie <beattie@stt3.com> writes:
>> Does anybody know if WordPerfect for SCO will run under FreeBSD 2.1R?
>
>I've heard rumours that it didn't run under 2.1R, but runs under the
>emulation in -current.  No guarantees however.

It does not work under 2.1R.  I have not been successful under 2.1 with a 
current kernel either although it looks more promising.  The only hangup 
appears to be the license server, not wordperfect itself.  

-john

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