On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 08:47 -0800, Joel Gomberg wrote: > On 11/29/2009 05:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > My name is Patrick and I'm a crossword puzzle addict. > > > > The NYT publishes its puzzles in Across Lite format, and there's a > > proprietary app (acrossl) which runs on Linux. Unfortunately it's > > getting really old and is binary-only. It worked under F11 but now the > > app gets a segfault on my netbook (though oddly it works fine on my > > 64-bit desktop, also on F12). > > > > Since I'm on the road for 2 months I'm starting to get withdrawal > > symptoms :-) F12 32-bit code is now compiled for the i686 and both the > > app and the old compat libraries are i386 (not all of them have been > > updated for F12). Could this be the problem? > > > > I'm also willing to try other Across Lite apps, but I've never come > > across a free one that was half-way decent. > > Hey, Patrick, I feel your pain. Fortunately, xword is a good open source > solution. You can find a Fedora srpm at: > > http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eskin/xword/xword-1.0-4.fc9.src.rpm > > Or you can download the source: > > http://x-word.org/xword-1.0.tar.gz Thanks. I'd looked at Xword some time ago and wasn't very impressed at the time. The latest version is over 3 years old, which is not encouraging. I guess I don't have any option if I can't get acrossl to work (I tried it on Wine once but it was flaky, and I can't run a VM on my netbook :-() poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
