On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Aloha Lars,
You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were
created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can
read them for transfer to a contemporary program?
Do you mean Word Perfect ?
Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE & was free,
while Corel charged for the MS based version !
If I recall correctly, this was a Linux version which ran with Linux
compatibility as it was then. Also it only ran with a GUI - the command
line version was available for $$$.
I have no idea whether it could be persuaded (easily) to run with recent
Linux compatibility.
I have distfile
MD5 (GUILG00.GZ) = 386d2c4c1422992e8f8242bd74f3f705
-r--r--r-- 1 jhs staff 23730473 Mar 12 2002 GUILG00.GZ
It got taken out of FreeBSD ports/ some years back.
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/editors/wordperfect/pkg/README.JHS
You might need to either:
upgrade port to run it on a new BSD
run it on an old machine
or emulator of an old FreeBSD
Cheers,
Julian
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Lars Eighner
http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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