Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi, On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > That's a good idea. Folks who walk around bad-mouthing anything that is > sold for money, well, that's a blind prejudice, and about as accurate as > most blind prejudices. I have to second

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi, On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:10:20PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > When I asked them about 2 weeks ago, they said mid November. Of 2000. > > Wow! By November of 2000 I may be retired. :-) phhh. ... smells like typical MS behaviour ;) I have to st

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > Maybe I'll take a look at Word Perfect. Does it do Word documents? > > > > > > Mail me a Word document. I'm not sure, I'll have to try it. I don't do > > > any Windows here, I haven't any experience with Word (and

Re: Updated: Call for Review: VoxWare/LGSND(Yes!) midi driver for serial ports

1999-05-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Hi! > > After a week of struggle, I am pleased very much to announce > that Luigi's sound driver now has a midi interface and a sequencer! great! If i understand well, you are supporting the handling of MIDI commands through the sio port only -- so i wonder what are the changes to the audio dr

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Amancio Hasty
Thats fine . I will check back in about 6 months to a year once it passes the alpha stage . I use kde as my desktop and I like I very much -- it has some quirks however I can live with it. -- Amancio Hasty ha...@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org wit

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > I am sorry . Isn't that a linux thingy ?? 8) Well most of KDE is. But hey, if I come across something that is Linux only, I try and commit a fix (as does the other "resident FreeBSD nut" Hans Petter Bieker). If you've got a post-egcs -CURRENT, KDE &&

Re: 3.2 Freeze date

1999-05-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:33:28PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :> My main interest are the NFS/TCP fixes, which Alan now has a -stable patch :> for. But it's already the tenth so if it goes in now the source will :> then have to be reviewed by more gurus ( post-commit ). :> :

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Amancio Hasty
I am sorry . Isn't that a linux thingy ?? 8) Well, okay since I haven't seen KOffice and from my recollection is a collection of applications. What can you tell us about the underlying properties of koffice documents? Does use a standar markup language like XML and styling markup like XSL ,

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Hi, > > xls and xml are markup languages which means you need an > "engine" to render -- they do solve very nicely the document > construct , or grammar and syntax. > > It would be great to have a word processing system based upon > XML, XSL and a lo

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi, xls and xml are markup languages which means you need an "engine" to render -- they do solve very nicely the document construct , or grammar and syntax. It would be great to have a word processing system based upon XML, XSL and a low level api (DOM) to manipulate documents 8) Cheer

Re: 3.2 Freeze date

1999-05-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:33:28PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > My main interest are the NFS/TCP fixes, which Alan now has a -stable patch > for. But it's already the tenth so if it goes in now the source will > then have to be reviewed by more gurus ( post-commit ). > The NFS/

Re: Sockets and SYSTEM V message queue

1999-05-10 Thread Chuck Youse
> > You would benifit greatly by purchaing "Unix Netowrk Programming Vol 1" > > by Stevens. > Agreed; V. 2 is an excellent "code walkthrough" of the BSD 4.3 > implementation. Boy do I hate to be picky: V.2 is a walkthrough of 4.4BSD-Lite. I agree though, the book rocks. Chuck Youse Direc

Re: Which O/S routines are subject to change?

1999-05-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> Any of them can change, but I excpect it to settle down in a year or > two. > :> > : > :It sounds like we might consider a DDI/DKI set of definitions. > > Yes, but not until things settle down in a year or two. Until > then, trying

Re: 3.2 Freeze date

1999-05-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In message <199905101056.gaa08...@lakes.dignus.com> Thomas David Rivers writes: :: (I'm mostly interested in `kern/11469' - a fix to the 1542 driver.) : :I'll make sure that gets in or is rejected explicitly. : :Warner My main interest are the NFS/TCP fixes, which Alan now has a -stable pat