Re: Reading WordPerfect files
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, 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?
>
> Thanks.
You could try the wp2x package, although it's written to work with
WordPerfect 5 it might work with later versions. It works for everybody around
here, but we use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Many people use later versions now and
I don't know if the later version files work with wp2x.
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