Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-08 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: I had this same problem. As I recall WP is looking for a specific libXt library. Installing the libc5-compat version should do it. Don't forget to link it. Regards, Mike > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP fro

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in > > WordPerfect format ( seems to be the default for some > > people in my department). Any advice on reading them? > > StarO

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately the abiword I've got at least doesn't do anything with WP files (version 0.7.7). LaTeX is, of course, the Right Way To Do It (tm) but the chances of my convincing my colleagues of that in time to stop getting their attachments are essentialy nil! ap

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for the tips (and from a fellow sociologist too). As it turned out, I had to load two old libraries to get WP to work: oldlibs/xlib6 oldlibs/xpm4.7 ran ldconfig and it works fine now. (Except that now I have this nasty commercial software on my machine, but that's a different story)

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Brian Stults
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: | Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format | (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on | reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't | get WP fro

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format > (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on > reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't > get WP from Corel to run on m

Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format (seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2r3): hm269-26876:/usr/local/wp/