well, this was Entertaining.
For those who like to cling.
www.wpuniverse.com
Marvelous place and there are even ways to run wp 5.1 for dos, under windows
8 if you like it like that.
You know I use wp many many times a day, wp 6.0 for dos and 6.2...but
I honestly cannot remember the last time
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 20/12/14 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>
>> Not you Patrick, someone else.
>> I am sort of quoting
>> "I still do not know what you have against > suggesting> it is far superior to wordperfect.
>> Odd idea about a virtual machine too.
>> T
On 20/12/14 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Not you Patrick, someone else.
I am sort of quoting
"I still do not know what you have against suggesting> it is far superior to wordperfect.
Odd idea about a virtual machine too.
The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially when so
m
On 2014-12-21, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> Why do we all have to like the same word processor?
>
> Indeed. And some of us actually like *document* processors (best example in
> Debian: lyx) for extremely consistent output (and IMHO, much higher
> productivity).
(I knew I was right to
On 12/20/2014 11:00 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100
Gary Dale wrote:
Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost
certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way.
WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else.
D
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100
Gary Dale wrote:
> Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost
> certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way.
WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else.
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 05:28:00PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> Just yesterday struggling with making a presentation with LO Impress.
> There are some 3 dozen toolbars of which I was looking for some.
> The online docs give one line of text for each -- no icon.
> https://help.libreoffice.org/Draw/Too
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
> Not you Patrick, someone else.
> I am sort of quoting
> "I still do not know what you have against
> it is far superior to wordperfect.
> Odd idea about a virtual machine too.
> The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially
Not you Patrick, someone else.
I am sort of quoting
"I still do not know what you have against
it is far superior to wordperfect.
Odd idea about a virtual machine too.
The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean. Especially when so many
others have reasons to appreciate their own word p
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
> I seem to recall making this point when i shared that while I respect the
> *personal* computing choices of others, I need not emulate them.
> In fact I never asked for word processing suggestions at all. Mine, works,
> for, me...and I th
On Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:40:04 AM UTC+5:30, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> "Just a matter of" doing that? How do I make "." the fill character
> for tabs? It's by no means self evident, because I just went through
> every menu looking for it. Came across Format, Paragraph, Tabs, Fill
> Character, c
I seem to recall making this point when i shared that while I respect the
*personal* computing choices of others, I need not emulate them.
In fact I never asked for word processing suggestions at all. Mine,
works, for, me...and I think the rich thing about computing is the
freedom to use wha
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 20 December 2014 23:19:50 Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Why do we all have to like the same word processor?
Indeed. And some of us actually like *doc
Entertaining thread..cool. Long time since I read a WP, reveal codes,
styles dust up :-)
I still use WP8 in a NT4 vbox instance for a couple of tasks..I absolutely
will not give up, I too miss the dot leader feature for my table of
contents.
I miss this feature, and a few more. I use the table f
On Saturday 20 December 2014 23:19:50 Gary Dale wrote:
> On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
[snip]
Why do we all have to like the same word processor?
Lisi
P.S. Sorry, Gary for the off-list just now. It wasn't aimed only at you and
should te
On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore
until it arrives that way.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale
wrote:
On 20
On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore
until it arrives that way.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> O
On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12
On 20/12/14 03:35 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 02:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Who said anything about running windows?
The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
Although a
On 12/20/2014 02:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Who said anything about running windows?
The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
Although a virtual dos machine might be intere
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>> > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
>> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen
On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
> >> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> >>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Who said anything about running windows?
> >
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
>>
>> On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Who said anything about running windows?
The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
Altho
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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
OK, but you can set up a UNIX vi
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:00:56PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 09:41 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >>hm whatever deepens your sense of self lol!
> >>Happy Holidays to you and everyone,
> >
> >Don't forget to have a Me
On 12/19/2014 09:41 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
hm whatever deepens your sense of self lol!
Happy Holidays to you and everyone,
Don't forget to have a Merry christmas!
Chris, I'm looking forward to a change in my meds! Merry
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> hm whatever deepens your sense of self lol!
> Happy Holidays to you and everyone,
Don't forget to have a Merry christmas!
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and l
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:46:59PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> These days almost all word processors use the ODF. Transfer of
> documents between the twenty or so word processors, etc., for example
> from a MS Word .docx file to a LibreOffice .odt file and the reverse,
> is well nigh effortless.
On 12/19/2014 02:42 PM, Jape Person wrote:
On 12/19/2014 02:22 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2014-12-19, Karen Lewellen wrote:
My choices work for me, and I am more than willing to respect the
choices
of others, even if I have zero need or desire to emulate them.
Thanks again for the comments, I consid
hm whatever deepens your sense of self lol!
Happy Holidays to you and everyone,
Kare
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Curt wrote:
On 2014-12-19, Karen Lewellen wrote:
My choices work for me, and I am more than willing to respect the choices
of others, even if I have zero need or desire to emulate t
On 12/19/2014 02:22 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2014-12-19, Karen Lewellen wrote:
My choices work for me, and I am more than willing to respect the choices
of others, even if I have zero need or desire to emulate them.
Thanks again for the comments, I consider this thread to be closed, at
least for me
On 2014-12-19, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> My choices work for me, and I am more than willing to respect the choices
> of others, even if I have zero need or desire to emulate them.
> Thanks again for the comments, I consider this thread to be closed, at
> least for me.
I don't think anyone was r
Hi all,
I appreciate all the suggestions, those on point recommending for example I
ask the Dutch debian project about wp. Those far from on point
suggestion I switch when I stated I was only seeking logistics.
I use dos daily and on my machine have wp5.1, which I almost never use,
and wp6
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On 2014-12-18 00:01, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> On 2014-12-17 Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> 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
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
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
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
Hi Paul.
What an interesting link. thanks for sharing that Dutch project.
Karen
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Doug wrote:
On 12/17/2014 08:58 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
Op 17-12-14 om 04:44 schreef Karen Lewellen:
> Greetings everyone,
> I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for
On 12/17/2014 07:43 PM, Charlie wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:14:23 -0500 Ric Moore sent:
Just a little follow-up to the last post. I don't like OpenOffice or
LibreOffice because I don't like the strait-jacket they
put you in.
Which is what?? It certainly isn't the price. :/ Ric
Actually
On 12/17/2014 01:14 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
On 12/16/2014 11:41 PM, Doug wrote:
/snip/
Just a little follow-up to the last post. I don't like OpenOffice or
LibreOffice because I don't like the strait-jacket they
put you in.
Which is what?? It certainly isn't the price. :/ Ric
I don't wan
On 12/17/2014 08:58 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
Op 17-12-14 om 04:44 schreef Karen Lewellen:
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 possib
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:14:23 -0500 Ric Moore sent:
> >>
> > Just a little follow-up to the last post. I don't like OpenOffice or
> > LibreOffice because I don't like the strait-jacket they
> > put you in.
>
> Which is what?? It certainly isn't the price. :/ Ric
Actually, I was going to ask
On 12/16/2014 11:41 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/16/2014 10:57 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/16/2014 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
On 2014-12-17 Karen Lewellen wrote:
> 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
Doug:
> Karen Lewellen:
> > Doug:
> > > There was once (around 1995?) a WordPerfect version for Linux. It
> > > worked, but it had terrible fonts. It has not been possible to
> > > install that for at least the past 4 years, and probably longer,
> > > as the dependencies can no longer be met.
> >
>
Op 17-12-14 om 04:44 schreef Karen Lewellen:
> 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 th
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX.
Which Unix? Which hardware vendor/CPU?
> I got this
> because wordperfect is my main word processor on my primary computer and I
> would welcome, if at
I still have the fourteen years old CDs of the Corel Linux distribution, which
came with WordPerfect.
Re-installed it a couple months ago so I could print some old WP for DOS
documents I had, which did not format properly in more recent versions, or
under LibreOffice.
Had to dig out an old Pen
Hi again,
I appreciate all You provided in this exchange. Please do not go to over
much trouble. as I use wp every single day on my main computer, and only
had a desire to find something I might personally do with my Debian box,
I will not lose anything if by chance my copy will only run
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Rusi Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:00:03 AM UTC+5:30, Doug wrote:
>> On 12/16/2014 11:34 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> > YOu know?
>> > I need to check this edition then, because it is far more current than
>> > 1995 I am sure.
>> > Kare
>> >
>>
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:00:03 AM UTC+5:30, Doug wrote:
> On 12/16/2014 11:34 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > YOu know?
> > I need to check this edition then, because it is far more current than 1995
> > I am sure.
> > Kare
> >
> >
> Ok, I was guessing 1995, it was later. I found my copy
On 12/16/2014 11:34 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
YOu know?
I need to check this edition then, because it is far more current than 1995 I
am sure.
Kare
Ok, I was guessing 1995, it was later. I found my copy of Corel WordPerfect 8
for Linux, Personal Edition. The disk is copyright 1998.
If you h
On 12/16/2014 08:57 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 12/16/2014 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 possi
On 12/16/2014 10:57 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/16/2014 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
YOu know?
I need to check this edition then, because it is far more current than
1995 I am sure.
Kare
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Doug wrote:
On 12/16/2014 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 wo
On 12/16/2014 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
Erv Walter wrote;
>>> What sort of problems are you having?
>> Instability to such an extend that I cannot us Wordperfect in Dosemu. I
> What version of DOS is doesmu running. I found wp to be unstable when
> I used DOS 7.x (from Win95). When I used DOS 5.0 or 6.x, WP is rock
> solid. I have
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