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#! rnews 2028 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lhofhans@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: the same old question.... Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:03:36 -0600 Organization: Indiana University Lines: 40 Message-ID: <33035778.52D1E449@indiana.edu> References: <3303341D.7B31@nortel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pionier.eigenmann.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35353 Andrew Atrens wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Has anyone found a commercial wordprocessor that will work under > FreeBSD ? > > I periodically post a question like this in hopes that the state of > the world has changed. :) > > I'd really like to be able to use a commercial wordprocessor under > FreeBSD. ( Actually, my wife would really like to use a professional > wordprocessor, without having to reboot into Windows :( ) > > Recently I discovered that Caldera has a wordperfect/motif bundle for > their flavour of Linux ( this is probably old news, but *news* to me ). > What chance is there that this thing will run on a FBSD box in > Linux emulation mode? > > Any help or suggestions or comments would be appreciated... > > btw. not to offend emac'rs out there, but emacs isn't really what I > had in mind. ;) > > Cheers, > > Andrew. > ( Opinions are mine, not those of any employer past or present. ) I found it pretty convinient and almost completely equivalentn to work with a wysiwyg WWW-authoring tools. The best tool I found so far is amaya. Take a look at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Amaya/ The source code is free. It is acutally a WEB-browser and -editor, but to me it looks more like (an almost) word-processor with integrated WEB-abilities. Lars