Re: Reading WordPerfect files
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....)
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - 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
>
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