On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > to keep it from crashing occasionally. That 's running it > under windows, not wine. I almost got wp9 for windows to > run under wine several months ago. That's sad because I've > always liked WordPerfect, but version8 for windows was the > last relatively bug-free version. That's what comes from a > paint company trying to program a word processor.
I was a WPER application layer developer, and lived through the horror of WPER/Win 5.1 and following; ... I think WPER 5.1 or 5.1+ (text) was the last _really_ useable release -- Isn't what you are observing rather the fall-out of Corel falling victim to the hidden API game by Microsoft, as MS targetted WPER with mis- and partial- information, as it displaced WPER with the graphical Word ? The Corel folks got suckered with WPER/6x and -7x graphical. That market segment is a classic example of Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish implemented. -- Russ Herrold
