input needed on Debian

[Gary]

Hi Leon,

--On Monday, December 22, 2003 10:55:55 AM -0500 Leon Goldstein
<metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Paradox, or WP8.1?

Sorry, Paradox.. <g>, although I have been using WP since DOS days. Am
currently using the latest v. in VMWare within SUSE. Would prefer to
use it in Linux however. I have even been successful in adding in
third party dictionaries without a problem.

> The early releases of Libranet did not have the libc5 and other libs
> for WP8.  I asked the Libranet folks to add them.  They obligingly
> did.

I am impressed with their responsiveness. It says something.

> Libranet (since 2.7) has a WP8 Compatibility package (? la SuSE's
> shlibs5).  I like Linux distro's that are friendly to WP8.  Xandros
> also provides support libs, but curiously does not provide much in
> the way of support documentation.  A Xandros user told me that when
> people query the Xandros users' list or tech support, they are told
> to look at the Libranet support data base for the answers!  This
> strikes me as odd, since Xandros nominally assumed Corel's
> "heritage."

Very interesting... In a cursive look at Libranet's site, I find their
documentation to be excellent on many levels.

>> I tried their demo, found it very slow going to page 2, and hard to
>> type.. They gave me a fix to allocate more memory, but still did not
>> help a lot, so I dropped it.

> There was a promo in November so I bought a discounted copy.  There has
> been a subsequent major patch release.  As I mentioned, I only use it for
> occasional HTML editing.

It looks great, and it may be something in the near future. Their team
was very responsive to my questions also.

>> BTW, CodeWeavers is coming out (exact date unknown, but they are
>> working on it) with a release for WP, don't know if it will the 2000
>> suite, or just WP, but this too I have been waiting for.. sounds
>> interesting. Wouldn't it be nice if they threw in Paradox, et al?  I
>> suspect it will be out probably second quarter of next year, but
>> unsure, just heard rumors on the suggested date.

> Source of this intelligence?

I quote in part from an email from ...

Jeremy White
CEO
CodeWeavers, Inc.

++++++++++++

" If it helps you make a decision as to whether or not
you'd like to buy a support extension, the following is
our planned list of supported applications for the coming year:
    Office XP
    Access
    Adobe Photoshop
    Windows Media Player 9
    "Sandbox" mode - run many versions of IE on one box
    Dreamweaver
    Director MX
    Autocad
    Corel WordPerfect Office
    Corel Draw
    Quickbooks
    TurboTax
    ...and many more "

Of course, they came out with Photoshop right away, as they had a
contract with Disney, and got paid for developing it. <g>

++++++++++++++++++++++++

The timing, of second quarter, is just a guess made by 2 friends who
also use Codeweavers, and as mentioned, rumors, not by anyone within
Codeweavers. It would make sense, based on previous issue timings.

> I am on the CodeWeavers mail list and get occasional notices of
> updates from them.  I have asked several times in the past when to
> expect support for WPx/Win, but the answers are always evasive.  I
> suspect that Quattro Pro and Paradox may already run.

I personally don't think it is quite ready yet.

> time ago I was able to get QP to start and sort of run under wine.  I
> think the Borland API is a lot tighter than WP's, so getting those apps
> to run would probably not be too difficult.

Interesting.. Yes, I agree the API for Borland is a lot tighter.

> I am also waiting for support for OCR.  I have a Win app called "ABBYY"
> (made in Russia) that works very well, and outputs to WP format (sine qua
> non for me).  I have managed to start ABBYY in wine, but it
> (understandably) does not run the scanner, and its OCR  output from a
> Linux scan is unusable.


thanks for the tip on this.  There are a few linux OCR programs,
native to linux, but I have never used them. I believe one is on the
SUSE Pro version.

-- 
Gary