Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-04 Thread Vic
cool thanks On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Any modern version of WordPerfect will read them. > Probably MS Word will read them. (You obviously must > run Windows to do that, or maybe Wine works?) Try > StarOffice. I don't know if that works or not, but > it's free. --doug > >

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Vic
Most excellent and cool. Many thanks and also to those who answered besides. Even tho only lasts 30 days, I just need it for a few days so it did the trick. I noticed a funny little oddity, but I think its just because of the printer script I am using off of linuxprinting.org the wp8 will not pr

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
Any modern version of WordPerfect will read them. Probably MS Word will read them. (You obviously must run Windows to do that, or maybe Wine works?) Try StarOffice. I don't know if that works or not, but it's free. --doug At 01:51 12/03/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Hello list > >Anyone know where

Re: [[newbie] Old wp5 files]

2000-12-03 Thread Michael Scottaline
Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list > > Anyone know where I can find > something to convert or read old > wordperfect 5 files? > > thankya thankyaverrimuch == Doesn't WP 8.0 open old WP formats??? Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
WordPerfect 8 for Linux (not Corel Office) is free. Get it at linux.corel.com. BTW, in regards to your CV question, Kword is part of Koffice. Look up koffice at rpmfind.net. Other viable alternatives include AbiWord (look it up at rpmfind.net) and StarOffice (www.openoffice.org). On Sun, 3 D

Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: >Anyone know where I can find >something to convert or read old >wordperfect 5 files? WordPerfect 8 for linux will read the old files and put them into most common formats. I don't know if it can convert things to what you want them to be, since you did not mention

[newbie] Old wp5 files

2000-12-02 Thread Vic
Hello list Anyone know where I can find something to convert or read old wordperfect 5 files? thankya thankyaverrimuch