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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > That is absurdly large.  I was running WP4.1 from a
> > floppy disk, and 5.1 from two floppy disks
>
> But those were CLI.  WP8 is GUI.

I know.  Another reason why I prefer CLI.  I forgot to mention that these 
were 360K floppy disks.  5.1 can also display WYSIWYG.

> > Since ext2 BL2 already has full versions of most of
> > the busybox utilities, could one add the SW71 libc5
> > package to it and then install WP8
>
> With some trial and error, you can probably get it to
> work.  But you may have to install some more utility
> packages from Slackware.  And don't forget the libc5
> versions of the X libraries.
>
> > Or even make symlinks to libc6 from libc5 library names?
>
> That won't work.
Why, are things set up very differently in the two libraries?

> > I read that WP5.1 can be used in dosemu.
>
> I believe that is so.  With DOSemu you could probably
> run just about any DOS CLI Wordprocessor.
>
> > Dosemu can be used with X, don't know about Xvesa
>
> Perhaps you would like to try that and report back
> here?  It could be useful for some people.

We had a serious problem with dosemu in CLI - at the prompt or in a 
program if you type A or S they do not appear on the screen.  Lowercase a 
and s are okay.  We will try it on different hardware next.

If I get WP51 working I will report how.  I don't use the graphical parts 
of it but could try to make those work too, however I think they need 
regular X, and I have BL2 set up with Xvesa, so it would need to be BL1 
(with libc6 added for dosemu).

 >
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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