On 12-Aug-99 Cheshire wrote: > Hey all, I've been unsuccessful in finding a console alternative to > wordperfect/star office. Basically I've set up a linux box for someone > and can't get X to work with the 16 color VGA monitor (I haven't looked > through much documention on it tho so I don't even know if I can--but > nonetheless, the 640x480 res wouldn't be great for much) and one of the > primary functions of the box will be word processing. I was hoping for > a little more than the countless basic editors. Can someone point me in > the right direction? I really don't want to put windows back on it. > Sorry for the non-debian-specific question. > >|cheshire|
There's a lot to be said for good old WordPerfect-5.1 running in dosemu. It works a treat, especially from the console: if you start dosemu by 'dos -C -k' (where '-C' refers to the DOS boot "drive" and might be different in your setup, and '-k' starts it in "raw keyboard" mode), then you get just about all of WP's weird keystroke combinations and you also get its graphics modes (for 'View Document', equation editing, WP graphics). In some respects WP lost functionality when 5.1 was "windowised" for WP-6, and this has persisted into WP-7 and WP-8, in both Windows and UNIX versions. However, this will do only for word processing. It has no pretensions to be an office suite. Hope this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Aug-99 Time: 02:34:55 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
