Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:45:55AM -0600, dave mallery wrote:
> >
> > After Corel Linux 1.0 had been out a while, I saw some copies at my
> > local Costco warehouse for ~$25 (US). It included WP 8.1 with a hefty
> > manual as well as a nice little Tux figure which I have sitting on top
> > of my computer (I tossed the rest of the package). WP 8.1 is in
> > .deb format (wp-full 8.1-12) and runs just fine on my woody system. It
> > does not require wine, but depends on both libc5 and libc6, which I
> > find a bit strange:
> >
> > Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libc6, xlib6g, type1inst
> >
> hi
>
> i had bought corel office 2000 ($100) and was absolutely unable to get it
> to function with any stability on r/h 7.2. support was wishful thinking.
> i have used v7 for ages on another 7.1 box but could not get it to run
> either on later versions.
>
> the big pain is that i have all kinds of important list-related stuff on
> the word 7 system. i was bracing myself for a long and painful transition
> to star office 6 next month.
>
> is that deb anywhere other than on your cd???
It may have been in a version of Office prior to Office 2000. Corel
did have a free version of WP 8.0 for a while, but it was a bit buggy
and required a lot of libc5 stuff.
Have you tried Abiword? It handles a lot of Word documents fairly well
(better than WP does).
Bob
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