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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
