Re: Reading WordPerfect files

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, 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'
> 
> I don't have a need to alter or even view the formatting of these files,
> I'd just like to get the information out of them. Any advice?

I don't have any Wordperfect files to hand but... have you tried recent
versions of Abiword? My version (0.7.11) can read Word 2000 files quite
well.

                                                   Faheem.