On Saturday 27 April 2002 05:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
>
> I did a quick search, didn't look at all the entries but heres most of
> the thread :)
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=and&format=short&config
>=newbie_linux-mandrake_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=Wordperfect+8
Here is the gist from a message from Giuseppe:
To use libc5 based applications such as Word Perfect 8,
you should install these packages:
ld.so1-1.9.11-6mdk.i586.rpm
libc-base-5.3.12-36mdk.i586.rpm
and if needed:
libc-extras-5.3.12-36mdk.i586.rpm
This should also work for Mathematica 4.1.2, old Matlab 5.3, etc.
Other stuff -----
The official Corel Linux web site is at http://linux.corel.com/
The download of WP8 PE was at CNET, but is there no longer. It's not found on
Corel's site either
(http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm does not
work). I did find a link at
ftp://ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/.3/linuxberg/files/x11/office/WordPerfect.tar.gz
and http://hk.linuxberg.com/files/x11/office/WordPerfect.tar.gz and
http://ftp.sci.univr.it/software/linux/Corel/WordPerfect.tar.gz
but the servers timed out. Perhaps it's still on some ftp server somewhere?
But, the WP8 registration site it is still working and is located at:
http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html
Oops -- there's a bug in WP8!
There is a bug in the Filtix filters that Corel licensed to allow importation
of MS-Word documents. On Sep 9, 2001, the bug kicked in and put filtrix into
demo mode. Corel, of course, has never fixed this. Some nice people on the
Net did, though, by creating a wrapper for filtrix that lies to it about the
current date/time. Read about it here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5655
and at:
http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/
The WordPerfect Mini-howto is at:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/WordPerfect.html
The focus is on WP7, but it may be helpful.
Hope this helps.
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