I relatively recently - late April - downloaded Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to run on my DOSBox in Linux. It ran quite well. Ditto for MS Word for DOS.
I liked Wordperfect 5.* in DOS - or SOD if you think it's a completely backward OS. I'm thinking - if I'm fortunate enough to find a decent place to stay, secure enough to get my computer back in operation - of writing a GPLed Wordperfect 5.* clone for FreeDOS. I've already worked out how I want the central loop to go - it'll all depend though, on whether or not I can find such a place to stay. (One of those nasty political things that makes creativity etc irrelevant in its frame of mind - or what passes for it.) Wesley Parish Quoting Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > WordPerfect is/was the console word-processor of choice. There used to > be > > versions for virtually every computer you could think of. Apparently > you > > could shoe-horn the versions intended to work on SCO-unix onto a Linux > > > machine. > > Apparently[1] you could just install the Linux version of word perfect > by inserting the respective flat round thing labelled "SuSE X.Y" into > the corresponding rescepticle and clicking a few buttons in Yast... [2] > > You need some activation code to actually run WP, but last I checked > the web site was still up (google) and seemed to be giving them out at > any rate to anyone putting some random characters into some web form. > No doubt code are also "otherwise" available. > > As it's software which has been dead for a long time I wouldn't get > started on it now. Use LaTeX instead if you want a console thing. Much > more flexible, and apart from a present, also has a future. > > Volker > > [1] Well I've done it > > [2] Probably still runs on a current system. Version 8 last shipped on > 7.0 or 7.1. Not sure whether there were earlier Linux versions. Would > one want them if there were? > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
