Ken Foskey wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:25, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Can people please tell me which distros and version THEY HAVE
> > Wordperfect for Linux running on please? (NOT Wine versions thanks)
>
> >From memory... WordPerfect relies of SCO emulation and most
> distribution kernels compile that out (more so lately...). I think you
> can do this in most distributions but you must roll your own kernel.
Okay, so you don't run it I gather. First I've heard of the SCO bit, but
I am not interested in fiddling the kernel. I do have (somewhere) a list
of libraries that I need to install to run it under RH7.3, so I am
progressing down that path.
However, the user has asked "if it would be easier if they learnt
another package". After saying this problem will still occur in the
future, my answer of latex was met with "that sounds like a smartie
answer".
Anyway, does Open Office read Word Perfect files?
If so, which ones? i.e. all dos, windows and linux versions?
Do you know of any legal people (like secretaries) using Open Office for
legal stuff? That would be a good test of non-mickey mouse stuff. I have
a few substantial books that need converting. Everything else is
mickey-mouse compared to them.
TIA.
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