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Re: PC File Viewer for Solaris

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Jun 3 17:37:27 1999

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:33:54 -0400
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
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sounds like I needed to read beyond the overview...

sorry.
mike

At 03:51 PM 6/3/99 -0400, Bill Cattey wrote:
:)I have fetched the free demo copy of pcviewer.
:)It's 15 megabytes in size.  (For the ksh script containing an embedded
:)uu encoded compressed file containing the actual package to install.)
:)It wants to install the truetype fonts on the X server.
:)It may want to install an X server patch.  (We already have a later rev
:)of the patch it desires.)
:)
:)It says that it installs it on top of CDE.  But since we don't use CDE
:)at all, I don't know if it will work at all.
:)
:)The overview claims support of many PC file formats, but I'm not
:)convinced it's worth the trouble.
:)
:)Other opinions?
:)
:)-wdc



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