Who said anything about running windows?
The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything
over much to do with Linux.
Thanks for the giggle,
Kare
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, 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.
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