Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?
On 12/17/2014 11:15 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 16/12/14 10:44 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX. I got
this because wordperfect is my main word processor on my primary
computer and I would welcome, if at all possible, to use it with
Linux as well.
Is there any reason why the program cannot be installed on a machine
running Debian squeeze?
My interest is in logistics, as I realize the software may be better
suited for networks, not individual computers.
Thanks,
Karen
LibreOffice reads WP documents quite well in my experience. However if
you want a version running in Linux, just set up a virtual machine and
run your primary computer's copy.
Wine and its derivatives can generally handle Windows programs but
virtual machines provide a pretty good alternative when you want the
program to work like it does on Windows. I use KVM myself and find it
great for most purposes but when a friend needed something to run
AutoCAD, it required Vmware. I think VirtualBox has caught up a bit
since then in the area of graphics processors.
Way back, I actually used Corel's Linux with WP and found it better
than the alternatives at the time. However things have progressed
rapidly since then and my advice is to make the switch to LibreOffice.
It's cross-platform, current, maintained and uses the ISO standard
data formats so you won't be stuck in the future.
If you can't tolerate the strictures of LO, take a look at Softmaker
Office. I don't know if it reads WordPerfect, but it reads and writes
all the modern formats.
There's a free version for non-commercial use, and it seems to have just
about all the pay version has. Don't know if there is a .deb install
version; there
is an rpm. There is a word processor, a spreadsheet, and Presentations.
--doug
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