[1809] in Release_7.7_team
Re: PC File Viewer for Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Jun 4 11:11:43 1999
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
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I want to know the specific file formats supported. There may be divers
ways of doing many of the same things without having to install the horrid
TrueType fonts, which don't even work well on the system they were
designed for.
-todd
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, 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?
