Hi,
At least up till some stage, this was a dos thing, so probably at least
*that* can be ported. Even the latest version is a 16-bit application
(though it does run on the newer windows versions) - I don't know
exactly what this means, but I guess this might mean that the windows
specific components are quite mild. The guy who wrote this has never
worked on linux (or unix), but I'll ask him what he thinks.
I'm sure that there will be some work in porting it, but I think this
can be done, and I think it's a lesser problem than getting the sources.
* Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020924 11:38]:
> Hi Moshe,
> The source code was probably not written in a way that can be ported -
> e.g. the display aspect is probably not isolated by a portability layer
> but probably uses direct calles to MFC, OWL or some other proprietary
> widget library that does not lend itself to portability. This would make
> the source code worthless.
> Regards,
>
> - yba
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > When I was a kid, I used a word processor called Qtext on my dos
> > machine. It was a freeware written by an Israeli guy, and had a better
> > (by far) bidi support than any alternative I knew.
> >
> > Yesterday, I discovered that I work with the guy who wrote it in the
> > same room. He told me that Qtext still exists, it is no longer a
> > freeware (it belongs to his kibutz) and that it still has the best bidi
> > support (they have only a window$ version). He also told me that the
> > developement of Qtext has stopped, since people seem to prefer M$ word
> > (apparently for the same obscure reasons they prefer other M$
> > software :). Anyway, he told me that they might be willing to sell the
> > source. Since they ceased developing it, I guess the price won't be very
> > high, and if it is possible to port it to linux, this might be the best
> > bidi word processor we have (it also supports Arabic and nikud).
> >
> > My question is, is there someone who might want to fund it?
> >
> > Moshe
> >
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