Re: Reading WordPerfect files
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 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 think there is a statically compiled version somewhere. If
> not search in old packages to find the old library it needs
> (IIRC WP and Netscape were both linked against old libs such
> as libc5 and old imaging libs).
>
You need the following from oldlibs:
a) xlib6 b) libc5 c) xpm4.7 (and maybe glibc2.1 if not
installed, for running programs built with gnu/ egcs compiler
1.1.x.)
> | I don't have a need to alter or even view the formatting
> | Iof these files, 'd just like to get the information out
> | Iof them. Any advice?
>
strings filename.wp8 > textfile
... This should give you all the text that you need along with
some amount of junk. Good enough for small texts. And if it is
for an overview of material ... then good enough !
> As Faheem suggested, I seem to recall that AbiWord could
> work with WP, to some extent anyways. Now that I think about
> it a bit more, it may have needed translation to an old (ie
> 95) Word format from WP to read it. Good to hear that it
> read MS Word2k files.
>
>
Never got abiword to read WP8 format, unless saved as RTF.
Abiword can read M$ .doc format though ...
> <sarcasm> Gotta love those amazingly interroperable
> proprietary formats. </sarcasm>
>
> I've recently been learning what a great format LaTeX is,
> once you know how to achieve the formatting you want.
>
Unfortunately, most of the lay world is still not convinced !!
Alas !
> -D
>
HTH
USM Bish
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