Subject: Re: Test post, and a few Q's about the BeOS port..
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 07:30:01 CDT
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ben Hall wrote:
>
> 1) I have been completely unable to save files w/ Abi 0.79 in BeOS R5 PE
> for x86. Is this in fact broken, or am I doing something wrong?
>
Sorry don't know. I know nothing about Be.
> I read that you had to explicitly add the extension .abw, which I tried,
> as well as putting it all in quotes, but it always just crashes.
>
> 2) Is it being actively developed, and by how many people? Will it be
> getting up to speed with the other versions soon?
>
Unfortunately not. It is rapidly falling behind the main platforms Linux
and Windows and the QNX port has now siginifcantly more functionality. I
don't think any work has been done on the Beos front end for at least 3
months. We just stubbed out calls to the Beos front end for new
functionality. It's sad :-(
> My programming skills aren't as good as I'd like, but I'll try to help
> if it's needed. I'm a 3rd yr CS student, I've been following AbiWord
> for a long time now (I don't remember the version, but it seems like
> well over a year..)
>
We really need someone to take up the Beos front end. Are you
volenteering?
> I keep trying to do my work reports with Abi, as it's the only WP I've
> found that works on more platforms than I do, but it always seems to
> fall a little short in some key areas, and I end out going back to
> StarOffice. (locked in to their file formats.. :( )
>
Export to rtf we can read that!
>
> Anyway, thanks for your time, and for the great program. I hope I can
> help,
>
Maintaining the BeOS front end would be a great help :-)
Cheers
Martin
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