a law firm i worked for from about 92-95 had a xenix box running WP for unix (5.0 or 5.1) to about 8-12 wyse 60 terminals. It worked fine.
they upgraded to a faster windows box running some sort of serial terminal software and wp 5.1 for dos (to the same serial terminals), and suddenly it wasn't..errr...any better. On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:07:57 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
