Word Perfect

[Liam Proven]

On 19 February 2013 22:12, Michael <jm603 at jagmail.southalabama.edu> wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 02:59 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> Ha anyone ever managed to get WordPerfect for Linux to run on modern
>> Ubuntu?
>>
>
> Sorry for the noise, but I couldn't resist responding.  I had a WP 5.1 for
> Linux sitting in its box on my shelf for years.  Just threw it away less
> than six months ago.


Oh, now that is a terrible shame. You should have eBayed it. I suspect
you'd have made hundreds. It's a genuine collectors' item now.

I think it was probably WordPerfect for *Unix* rather than *Linux*.

WP5.1 had a version for SCO Xenix - I installed it and supported it
back then. It required printer drivers to be hand-customised in C
shell. Linux didn't exist yet back around the time of WP5.1.

WordPerfect 7.x/8.x had a native graphical version for Linux, and very
good it was, too.

http://features.slashdot.org/story/98/08/13/1448208/review-wordperfect-80-for-linux

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2602

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3046

And look what I stumbled across!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnEbaaZEEEE

> I did have it working years ago.  I can't remember
> what version of Linux it was.  I am certain it was before Ubuntu came on the
> scene though.

This would be a text-mode (i.e. console) application, right?

I guess you could have got it working under the ancient SCO Xenix
emulation package - I can't even remember what that was called. Never
used it, although I've come close.

> I still remember when the company I used to work for switched to MS Word.
> We ALL hated Word.  Some of those old ladies got downright nasty about it!

I can believe that. :¬)

> Now, for my purposes anyway, any one of them will do.
>
> Good luck getting it working.

The Youtube clip offers one idea - install under 8.04, zip up the
installed copy, transfer and replace a few missing libraries. That
might be worth a try.

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