Good morning Brian, As one who learned WordPerfect in 1986, also via DOS and then Windows*, and used it on my first four PCs, I have no objection whatsoever to that Zamzar feature.
In fact, I still have a copy of WP v8 lying around here somewhere...it came with the PC I bought in 1998**. I had a choice between MS Word and WordPerfect, with the understanding that the storefront manufacturer could only support the former. I picked the latter...knowing the handwriting was on the wall. (Meanwhile, that same year my university stopped supporting WordPerfect.) I always liked Reveal Codes and certain other visual functions. You have a good point about sometimes just needing to generate files for yourself -- maybe your own notes or for printouts. (Of course, if WordPerfect also exports to PDF your options widen.) I'm just intrigued that apparently some people, after generating their own files in a *different* software, want to share them with someone else who does use WordPerfect. Last but not least, I'm well aware how many U.S. government facilities -- including sensitive military ones -- run on classic software (and floppies!). [*] And only switched over to Word -- that is, to OpenOffice -- in 2004, kicking and screaming, when I took on a project requiring me to read students' submissions. Naturally, by then they'd all switched over to MS Word. And I found MS Works wasn't going to cut it. [**] No, it's not what I'm typing this email on. Long live legacies! Jeff Deutsch Speaker & Life Coach A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs http://www.asplint.com "Listen to the universe while it whispers before it has to shout." Marion Grobb Finkelstein, Communication Catalyst -- http://www.MarionSpeaks.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:14 AM, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:46:45 -0400, you wrote: > > >Believe it or not, as of right now Zamzar still enables people to convert > >files *to* WordPerfect (wpd). > > > >Jeff Deutsch > >Speaker & Life Coach > >A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs > >http://www.asplint.com > > > > And why does that cause you a problem, exactly? I still use an old > version of Word Perfect (v12, I think) as my word processor of choice > when I don't need to send the file to anyone else. If the site allows > me to convert files to Word Perfect, why should they disable that > feature, as you seem to imply? > > I learned to use Word Perfect under what was then VAX/VMS in the late > 1980s, then via WP 5.1 for DOS to WP for Windows. It still does a good > job, and I prefer it to Open Office unless there's a chance that I > need to share the document. > > And don't give me any BS about "out-of-date" software or similar. I > spent a working lifetime writing (mainly) software for doing process > control and laboratory database work. You should see the amount of > antique kit which was bought to do a specific job in a laboratory and > is still doing that job because the kit still works and does the job > well. Case in point is the Canadian nuclear energy people who are (or > were recently) looking for DEC PDP assembly language programmers, they > apparently intend to keep their PDPs running until 2050, more than 50 > years since the now-extinct DEC discontinued them. Were I a few years > younger, I'd be brushing up my Macro-11... > > > Brian. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
