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Re: WordPerfect 8 starts to load, then dies.



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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:08 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I thought that I had seen some posts about WP (which I did not read
> at the time) but I can't find anything in the archives.  If this has
> been covered already, just point me in the right direction, please.
>
> I am running Woody any use the free download version of WordPerfect
> 8. It has worked fine until I tried to load it yesterday.  The splash
> screen displays, followed by the main window in the corner, but the
> document window never appears.  Everything just silently goes away.
>
> If I try to load the program from the command line it terminates with
> a segfault.
>
> Any clues on this?  I don't have any other programs that read the WP
> format, so I really need to get this working again.

I am using WP8 full version from the Corel Linux cd (deb package) on my 
Woody box. I loaded the 'libc5 package from the 'oldlibs'  area of 
dselect & the 'type1inst' package. I am not to familiar with the free 
download but I don't think it is different in its requirements for 
running.
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