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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Word processor type application for freebsd/xwin
Date: 14 May 1996 19:10:13 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4na6bv$ei1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
John Fieber <jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> wrote:
>I believe that linux users running WordPerfect are running the SCO
>version which does in fact use Motif, but is statically linked so it
>matters not whether you have Motif. 

There are two different versions of WordPerfect available for Linux.
One of them is a native Linux version, and the other one is the SCO 
version.

The Linux *native* version of Word Perfect might work
under FreeBSD's Linux emulation.  Check out http://www.caldera.com or 
http://www.caldera.com/whatsnew/cio_rel.html .  Look for the
"Caldera Office Suite".

>FreeBSD's sco emulation is not
>good enough to run the SCO WordPerfect.  

>I started to look at the problem, but using ktrace on the license
>manager causes a panic and reboot in the May 1st snapshot.

Oh well.  

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu