On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:40, Terry Collins wrote: > 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,
I believe Ken was referring to documents such as this one: http://www.linux.com/howtos/WordPerfect-5.shtml Which has explanations for getting WP 5 and 6 to run on Linux using iBCS and SCO libraries. IIRC Word Perfect 7 was a "real" linux port (in so far as it was linked against .sos that you'd find on a vanilla Linux install), but you didn't mention which version. Ken has the answer on OpenOffice, but I just had a look at Abiword and it claims to be able to open Word Perfect files. I would test it out for you but I don't have any WP files to speak of. At any rate, seeing as it's free and ships with any modern linux distribution it might be worth trying out before spending a bunch of time trying to get these libraries to work. I know I'd sure rather be running Abiword on Fedora Core 1 than Word Perfect on RedHat 7.3. I don't know if that's an option for you but I figured it was worth mentioning. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
