On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 03:52:28PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:30:35AM -0700, craigw wrote: > > On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 09:27:28AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > David Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > They would have known that BOTH Correll Office 2002 and CorrellDraw > > > > run on Linux here is the link: > > > > > > A bit more research would show that these products are essentially > > > abandoned by Corel, have seen no bug-fix releases to reduce the huge > > > amount of bugs therein, and work best under a version of corelwine for > > > which you can no longer find the sources. > > > > > > > > This answer (David's not Alan's) was so funny I fell out of my chair > > laughing. First of all it's not Correll Office 2002, it's Corel's > > WordPerfect Office 2000. And as Alan pointed out, it was abandoned long > > ago. Which is a damn shame, because there was potentially a very fine > > product there, but it needed a lot of work. To get it running on a > > recent Linux distro you will probably need to do some work; install > > corelwine or some other compatible wine, maybe even libc5-compat or > > a couple things like that, but even if you ran it on Corel Linux, it was > > so buggy as to be, well, maybe not unusable but extremely annoying. > > After Corel Linux 1.0 had been out a while, I saw some copies at my > local Costco warehouse for ~$25 (US). It included WP 8.1 with a hefty > manual as well as a nice little Tux figure which I have sitting on top > of my computer (I tossed the rest of the package). WP 8.1 is in > .deb format (wp-full 8.1-12) and runs just fine on my woody system. It > does not require wine, but depends on both libc5 and libc6, which I > find a bit strange: > > Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libc6, xlib6g, type1inst > > > Yes, in fact I have WordPerfect 8 and it is a perfectly good program, partly because it was ported to linux. There is another little helper available (not a necessity) called wp8filtrixfix that helps improve its M$Word importing: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wp8fix/
Unfortunately when they came out with the whole office suite it was ported to Wine rather than truly ported to Linux, and it is very problematic. If anyone is interested in wordperfect8 you can find it thru google, but it may take some work. AFAIK, it is not available any longer as a download from Corel. However, they still give you a registration number at their website, and it is a very quick & easy setup, you fill out the form & get the number right there, not emailed later. The download version is a full-featured WordPerfect, not crippled or time limited. P.S. here's one place: http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/kaboom/linux/WP8-personal.tar.gz>Yes, in fact I have WordPerfect 8 and it is a perfectly good program, partly because it was ported to linux. There is another little helper available (not a necessity) called wp8filtrixfix that helps improve its M$Word importing: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wp8fix/ Unfortunately when they came out with the whole office suite it was ported to Wine rather than truly ported to Linux, and it is very problematic. If anyone is interested in wordperfect8 you can find it thru google, but it may take some work. AFAIK, it is not available any longer as a download from Corel. However, they still give you a registration number at their website, and it is a very quick & easy setup, you fill out the form & get the number right there, not emailed later. The download version is a full-featured WordPerfect, not crippled or time limited. P.S. here's one place: <http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/kaboom/linux/WP8-personal.tar.gz> or on CD for only $1 wow!: <http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=L000-019&id=B9ZJvXOppRc3o> -- -CraigW @@@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @ @@ @@ @ @@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
