Warren Togami wrote:
Alvin Murphy wrote:
Greetings everyone: thanks to everyone for the help I have been
receiving. I am amazed at how active and helpful this group is and
now kicking myself for not having attended meetings. I have been
teaching myself Linux for the past year basically by reading books
and trying things out but my knowledge is fairly thin. Thank you,
Warren for your comments on open office: I will try to install it
at/opt and see if I can get it working, that is if I can recover from
the mess I made last night by trying to upgrade to Mandrake 8.2; more
about that date or if I get time.
Be sure that you erase all exisitng directories having to do with your
previous OpenOffice installation first. Also remove .sversionrc
(hidden dot file) from the directories.
Again, Warren, you said there may be a way to get around the
WordPerfect print driver by printing to cups. If you have any
specific suggestions, I would appreciate them; the print dialog
screen only offers three choices: disk, hp (the path to my printer on
SMB via lpr), and $PRINT. I am fairly sure that the last option is
the way to go but I do not know how to make it work. When I try to
print to it, I get an error message. I cannot find any environment
variable on my system with that name; perhaps there needs to be an
export command with the correct path to the spooler or filter (not
that I would know how to do that). Perhaps I could bring my box to
the next meeting whenever that is and you could have a look.
I myself have never tried it so I don't know, and I have no way of
getting the WordPerfect 8 download edition. Can anyone hook me up
with a copy? Is that even legal to do?
By the way, WordPerfect for Windows version 9 works very well inside
my Linux by using Win4Lin; I could just stay with that but I would
like to completely migrate to Linux.
Can you test it in the various versions of Wine please? I'd like to
hear of any successes and/or failures in that. There is Transgaming
WineX (with some enhanced DCOM stuff that makes InstallShield work
properly), CodeWeavers Wine, Lindows Wine, ReWind (X11 branch) and the
WineHQ Wine (close to CodeWeavers version).
For me, Abiword has the most pleasant appearance, imports my files
fairly well, translates them over my lan as word documents, but I
really miss the quick- correct feature and a macro function.
Star office and open office have the quick correct feature and macro
function but do not import WordPerfect files. Of course, there is a
work around by saving them as word files or .rtf, but that is humbug.
By the way, Josh Berkus, is working on WordPerfect filter and looking
for WordPerfect files to use. I will try to include his email address
in this note or another.
Excellent. Was Josh Berkus on the OpenOffice-Discuss mailing list?
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Warren, Thanks again. I will try to reinstall OpenOffice, once I get my
box working again. I can "burn" you a copy of WP8 if you could send me
an address. In order to install it, you need a registration number which
I can also provide. It will not run the install script unless you have
some old libraries; I believe what you need is glibc5 and ld.so1 or
similar; if this is wrong, I will try to find them on my computer. They
are both available on the net, as I am sure you know.
I wish there were a way to back out of Mandrake 8.2, since it does not
work very well and Ximian does not work at all. Perhaps I am too
attached to my GUIs. Ah well, every screw up leads to more knowledge.
I will try out the various "wines"; thanks for the tip. It would be nice
to run it without having to invoke Win4Lin, although I must say it works
very well; windows even seems faster; not sure how that is possible.
Yes I did get in touch with Josh through the OpenOffice community. I
believe he is part of that "whole town converting to Linux" story, I
believe Key Largo, Fla. In any case his name is Josh Berkus, get him at
[email protected] and he would appreciate getting WP files from anyone
willing to contribute as he works on the filter. It is nice to feel you
can contribute, even in this small way. Thanks again. You are showing
admirable restraint in vfiew of one recent message. I suppose
frustration leads some to write things they later regret, or at least I
hope they regret. The xvoice community has a nice sign off, I believe it
is "ear oars".
