On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:49:00 -0400 Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:40:52AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:21:43 +0200 > > "Felix C. Stegerman" <quix@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > > I remember WP 5.1. That was fast. I haven't used it for a long > > > time though, so I can't really remember much of the advanced > > > functionality. My dad (note that my real dad and stepdad are > > > different peoply, and my > > > > > > real dad does know a lot about computers since he's a sysadmin) > > > still uses WP 5.1 regularly. Unfortunately he doesn't use Linux, > > > but his company does use (dare I say this?) SCO UNIX. (which I > > > believe they bought before SCO was taken over by Caldera though). > > > > Well, if old versions aren't a problem... They did release > > WordPerfect 8.x for Linux a long time ago. I used to have a cd of it > > around here. Not sure how easy it would be to find for download. > > Note, however, that it requires some old libraries to work properly. > > I had a WordPerfect for Linux CD. It tried to write on the CD > dirung installation! Tech support said you could get around > this by copying the entire CD to hard disk, and then installing > from the copy. But I didn't have an extra 500 megabytes (that was a > *lot* of disk space in those days. I was not impressed. lol... Now that you mention it, I think that was how I ended up getting it to install properly. It doesn't seem like it was a full 500MB though. Fortunately it's been a very long time since I've had to worry about WP. :-) Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #48: Linux - It is now safe to turn on your computer.
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