Word Perfect

[Liam Proven]

On 20 February 2013 01:38, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2013-02-19 20:59 (GMT) Liam Proven composed:
>
>
>> Ha anyone ever managed to get WordPerfect for Linux to run on modern
>> Ubuntu?
>
>
> I haven't tried, but FYI, I bought the Corel Linux 1.0 Deluxe box including
> WordPerfect 8 many many moons ago. How I wound up with original 1.1 standard
> disks I can't remember, but here are some packages on its installation CD:
>
> /media/Corel_Linux/dists/corellinux-1.1/corel/binary-i386
>    123770 Mar 13  2000 corel-bootsplash_1.0-322.deb
>  24061304 Mar 13  2000 kde-corel_1.1-1429.deb
>   3876574 Mar 13  2000 kernel-image-2.2.14_2.2.14-1_i386.deb
>  21092548 Mar  9  2000 netscape4-128bit-ent_4.7-2_i386.deb
>   1435866 Mar 13  2000 qmail-corel_1.03-1429.deb
>    924422 Mar 13  2000 qt-corel_1.44O-1429.deb
>    908148 Feb 29  2000 samba_2.0.6-cl-1.1_i386.deb
>  39450830 Feb 11  2000 wp-full_8.1-12_i386.deb
>  11161600 Feb 11  2000 wp-manual_8.1-3_i386.deb
>    117884 Feb 11  2000 xdm_3.3.6-2.99.slink.1_i386.deb
>    280408 Feb 11  2000 xfree86-common_3.3.6-2.99.slink.1_all.deb
>    436256 Feb 11  2000 xserver-common_3.3.6-2.99.slink.1_i386.deb
>
> Corel, even @ 1.2, was very buggy. I don't remember much about it except the
> disappointment in WP8 for Linux compared to the WP6.2 for DOS I was happy
> with at the time.

I spent ages looking online for a copy of WP6.x for DOS - never could
find one. :¬(

I would be very grateful for an email of those .DEB packages, though!

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