Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-06 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Johann Spies wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:16:25AM -0600, James Miller wrote: I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
http://ul451.gsu.edu/~pwiseman/WP8_and_Debian_GNU_Linux.html Thanks, yes. This is a good short summary of what a Debian user needs to know to get WP8 working. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:54:58AM -0600, James Miller wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Johann Spies wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:16:25AM -0600, James Miller wrote: I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
I have some references lying around on using ttf with latex, if you want email me and I will dig them up. Sounds like a (la)tex FAQ. comp.text.tex can probably help, or http://www.tug.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread James Miller
I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind of stinks, but now I'm looking at alternatives. I've heard some people rave about the

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind of stinks, but now I'm looking at alternatives. I've heard some people rave about

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 at 11:17am, Andrew Schulman wrote: : I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a : multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) : multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind : of stinks, but now I'm

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:16:25AM -0600, James Miller wrote: I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind of stinks, but now I'm

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Bill Benedetto
James D Freels writes: James I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered James that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because James it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have James copied these files (found

RE: Fwd: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ed
] Received: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:18:02 -0400 Subject: Fwd: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ? ''Don;'t you have the script? ''-- Forwarded Message -- ''Subject: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ? ''Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:38:15 -0400

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Alvy
Bill Benedetto wrote: FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't had real good luck so far (although I haven't looked at it in a few weeks). Thanks! Did you apt-get install libc5 xpm4.7 xlib6 before

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Victor Cain
I would certainly like to vote for the WP import/export in OO.org. Do I need to e-mail someone else? On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Bill Benedetto wrote: James D Freels writes: James I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:  What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't have big sales of WP8.

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:44:41 -0500, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Benedetto wrote: James D Freels writes: James I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Alan Shutko wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:15:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said would this be a canidate to run more than one version of debian? (the chroot thing whereby you setup something like apache or xf86 to run in chroot env that is different (libs, etc) than your current system) Yes, absolutely[0].

WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread James D. Freels
I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied these files (found by ldd on wordperfect executable) form a working Woody system

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except on Ebay? --

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
y On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied these files (found by ldd

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hi James, this might be a little OT but people in my local lugs met with the OO.org guy (sam heiser) and mentioned that folks in law offices and some other would switch to

Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
Hi, I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 and xlib6 but it is now complaining /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' When I try ~#locate libXpm.so.4 I get

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread p
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:25:17PM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 and xlib6 but it is now complaining /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/xwp: can't load library

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Doug Hespe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 and xlib6 but it is now complaining You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help my nightmares go

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help my nightmares go away. Thanks Bently and Alan: I will give that a try. Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. The latest version (9

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Doug Hespe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. Well, you could use SO and I couldn't support you, so I'd feel better.[1] You might also try to get ahold of Corel's Linux

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help my nightmares go away. Yes! It worked-- thanks again fellows! Cheerio, Doug.

Re: wordperfect8

2000-02-16 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is there a .deb package for wp8 I can get with apt-get? Robert Thus spake paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): debs, i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a

wordperfect8

2000-02-16 Thread pplaw
debs, wordperfect8 wants libXt.so.6. ...didn't see it when searching @ debian.org. could someone let me know where i can find it. thx. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wordperfect8

2000-02-15 Thread pplaw
debs, i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a deb package). ...suggestions? ia, t. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wordperfect8

2000-02-15 Thread kometboy
pplaw wrote: debs, i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a deb package). ...suggestions? ia, t. -- Bentley Taylor __

re: re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-19 Thread russell cook
To Robert Kerr, You were right. I was running Xwindows in 24 bpp mode, and switching to 16 bpp mode cleaned everything up nicely. Funny the installation docs made no mention of this restriction. Anyway, thanks much, and thanks to all who replied. As others have said, help like this is why I

Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-19 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:13:47PM -0600, russell cook wrote: I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev installed because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have

Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-18 Thread russell cook
I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev installed because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have installed on my Potato system for Wordperfect to run properly? If

Re: Fuentes en WordPerfect8

1999-04-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 30 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 00:02:27 -0500, Ugo Enrico Albarello contaba: Alguien sabe como hago para agregar fuentes a WordPerfect8 para Linux? Abrí una vez un thread en es.comp.os.linux sobre las fuentes en StarOffice. La cosa quedó en que a StarOffice sólo se le

Fuentes en WordPerfect8

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
Hola... Alguien sabe como hago para agregar fuentes a WordPerfect8 para Linux? -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org

wordperfect8

1999-01-31 Thread Florence HENRY
hello, I've just installed wp8 and, when I launch it, it says to me: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I checked, and I DO NOT have this library... I've got 'libXpm.so.4.10' and wp seems to need th release 4 and not 4.10... where can I find it? thanks

Re: wordperfect8

1999-01-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Florence HENRY wrote: hello, I've just installed wp8 and, when I launch it, it says to me: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I checked, and I DO NOT have this library... I've got 'libXpm.so.4.10' and wp seems to need th release 4 and not 4.10... where can I find it? thanks

Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-23 Thread Paul
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click on Print, WP says the print

HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-22 Thread Albert Hurd
I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not get fed the file. When I try again, WP queues the file a second time. When I

Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not get fed the file. When I try again,