Re: Free WP9 editor
Thanks, I had a feeling that would be the case. I'll just have to use my NT box (currently undergoing maintenance after locking up--again!) for WP until they dump it next year, hopefully we'll get a cross-platform word processor then.
Much appreciated,
Aidan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:05:20PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Aidan Christian O'Reilly" <aidanc@crisp.net> writes:
>
> > Other than getting WordPerfect, are there any options available
> > (preferably free as in speech)?
>
> There's Corel's WPO2K/Linux, although it's unstable and buggy.
> There's Corel's WP8 free download, or used to be... but it probably
> won't support all the formatting in WP9, and you can't install any
> fonts in it anyway. None of these are libre.
>
> Unfortunately, those are the only things I know which support recent
> WP documents. Star Office might do it, but I doubt it supports recent
> WP docs... nobody besides Corel does much work on reading Corel files,
> because of its market share. Sad to say, your best options may be
> VMWare or Win4Lin.
>
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