In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141460231808123&w=1>
I wrote
> [[various things that need fillable pdf forms of a sort that no
> native OpenBSD software seems to grok]]
> 
> There's still a place in the computing world for Windoze machines. :(

In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141460283508319&w=1>
Alexandre Ratchov asked
> not sure to understand; you mean that you're using the acroread
> port on openbsd?

and in message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141460396508823&w=1>
David Coppa further asked
> Indeed.
> 
> I'm not questioning the usefulness of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
> 
> I'm questioning the value of Acrobat Reader *7.0* running via
> compat_linux on OpenBSD/i386.

Oops.  I'm sorry, in hindsight my message was rather misleading.
I have not tried the i386 compat_linux acroread port, and I didn't
mean to imply anything about its usefulness or lack thereof.

ciao,

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