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
