Thanks for the tips (and from a fellow sociologist too). As it turned out, I had to load two old libraries to get WP to work:
oldlibs/xlib6 oldlibs/xpm4.7 ran ldconfig and it works fine now. (Except that now I have this nasty commercial software on my machine, but that's a different story....) ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Brian Stults wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > > get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2r3): > > > > hm269-26876:/usr/local/wp/wpbin# ./xwp > > ./xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > > > > Here are the results of "zgrep -e libXt.so.6 Contents-i386.gz": > > usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libs/xlibs > usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 libs/xlibs > usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 > oldlibs/xlib6 > usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 > oldlibs/xlib6 > > Therefore, you should find libXt.so.6 in xlibs. Maybe you need to put > "/usr/X11R6/lib" in /etc/ld.so.conf. Also, make sure libXt.so.6 is > properly symlinked to libXt.so.6.0. > > There is also a package called wp2x with this description: > > wp2x - WordPerfect 5.x to whatever converter > > This program converts simple WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 files into any > other document > processing languages that use plain text files, like TeX, LaTeX, troff, > GML and HTML. > > > -- > > Brian J. Stults > Doctoral Candidate > Department of Sociology > University at Albany - SUNY > Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 > Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452 >
