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 by

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 that it no

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

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 the

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 on

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