-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-12-18 00:01, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > On 2014-12-17 Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX. >> I got this because wordperfect is my main word processor on my >> primary computer and I would welcome, if at all possible, to use >> it with Linux as well. Is there any reason why the program >> cannot be installed on a machine running Debian squeeze? > > If you could somehow get hold of a copy of WP 5.1 for Dos, I used > that with good results under Dosemu -- many, many years ago. ;) > > Morten
When WP 5.1 was the Queen of word processors it was my word processor of choice. Some thirty years ago when I was in graduate school I used is exclusively. I continued to use it until the early 2000s but not nearly as intensively. Also in the early 2000s I started to wean myself from Microsoft. Part of the weaning was to move gradually to FOSS word processors, based on the open office format (ODF) (1), especially LibreOffice and its predecessors. There was quite a steep learning curve, but once I learned the ODF system I did not want to go back to anything else. These days almost all word processors use the ODF. Transfer of documents between the twenty or so word processors, etc., for example from a MS Word .docx file to a LibreOffice .odt file and the reverse, is well nigh effortless. I nevertheless still have Dosemu with WP 5.1 for DOS installed in my Wheezy computer. I can use it if I have to for access to what I wrote way back then. But where I need to lift texts from what I wrote in the 1980s for inclusion in something I am writing now, I import such texts to LibreOffice and reformat them. Doing so I find less time consuming than trying to remember the ways of WP 5.1. WP still exists. The current version is X7 which has its devotees. It is however still proprietary, and what still exists for Linux is the Microsoft version on top of Wine.(2) For reasons already stated I strongly recommend anyone still wedded to WP to convert to a word processor using the ODF. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSUVoMACgkQlNlJzOkJmTdpVQCdELnbqbIhIss+E6aKIX5rVBtv TpkAn385N2/V7E1zhcZp/aUmPH9EMS4y =hCBP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54945683.10...@teksavvy.com
