According to the Corel web site, the free version of WP is no longer
available. This is unfortunate, but I assume they didn't want to
continue to support an older version (Office 2000 includes WP 9).
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:13:23PM -0400, Amanda Owens wrote:
> You know, rather than StarOffice, you might try Corel's WordPerfect.
> They offer a free version for Linux, and it runs great! I've used it to
> read, edit, and write to Word documents. So long as there isn't a ton of
> MS-specific formatting in the .doc, it works like a dream.
>
> Amanda
>
> Brian Williams wrote:
> >
> > Hi All.
> > Thanks for all those that suggested alternatives such as staroffice.
> > Unfortunately, I am not ready to use that as the solution yet for a
> > combination of reasons:
> > - my laptop is uinderpowered (especially memory to run win4lin and
> > staroffice)
> > - staroffice is not that reliable on this laptop, although it runs like
> > a dream on my home system, which is a similar setup, but much more powerful
> > - I am very limited on hard disk space I can make available for linux
> > - although staroffice is very good for compatibility, while I am the
> > only person testing use of linux/win4lin, compatibility must be 100% (I
> > don't just read these documents; I also create/edit them, and I need
> > more testing on my own time to verify the level of compatibility).
> >
> > So, any suggestions for streamlining linux/win4lin integration?
> > /brian
> >
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