Whatever Happened To Textmode WordPerfect? 16
wedonneednoSTEEKINGguis asks: "After an hour of Google searching that turned up empty, I turn to the next best thing, Slashdot's hordes of trained monkeys. Does anyone know whatever happened to the console-mode (character-based, text-mode, whatever you want to call it) Word Perfect for Linux 5.1? I'm -positive- I recall it
being included with the full GUI package in some Linux version or another, but naturally all traces of it have disappeared from Corel's FTP site, and I can't even find any references except for people talking about using emulation to run MS-DOS binaries. Word Perfect continues to be the WP of choice in our office (as well as many legal firms, so I've heard), and we don't need the features or want the overhead of a graphical version. Does anyone know where this beast might currently be located, or has it become unofficial abandonware?" Ah, I remember quite a few teenage summers where I worked in jobs that used the text version of WordPerfect. Of course, I never could remember keyboard command for "bold"...Alt-F5, or was it F6?
Was if really WP for Linux ?? (Score:1)
Read the article first ! ALL of it. (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Dude, I still HAVE WP51 for DOS! (Score:1)
portability (Score:2)
If i'm not mistaken, it was written mainly in x86 assembly code (I could be wrong... I remember hearing about that though)... so making it in portable C code is just like rewriting it entirely...
Ricardo.
included in WordPerfect 8 for UNIX (Score:3)
URL on Corel's website (Score:1)
It does exist, however..... (Score:1)
http://linux.corel.com/products/wp8/features.htm#
I also tried to find some (any) references to pricing for this beast, to no avail - it is conspicuously missing from price lists for all the retailers and resellers I could think of (including Ingram Micro's)...
What to do? The best bet is probably to wait out until Corel officially embraces MS
Hope this helps, as bleak as it may sound.
Re:portability (Score:1)
Was in Server edition of WP7 and WP8 Unix (Score:4)
Re:It does exist, however..... (Score:2)
System requirements:
X Window System:
9 MB RAM for first user; 2.5 MB for each additional user
43 to 103 MB hard disk space, depending on platform and installation options
Character Terminals: 2 MB RAM for first user; 1.5 MB for each additional user
31 to 40 MB hard disk space, depending on platform and installation options
Re:Dude, I still HAVE WP51 for DOS! (Score:1)
Re:It does exist, however..... (Score:1)
Re:Was if really WP for Linux ?? (Score:1)
Re:Doen't Make sense (Score:1)
There are reasons to continue running the old text-mode version. One of my friends is legally blind and uses a speech synthesizer to read on-screen text outloud when he is working. He has GUI versions of his software, as the speech synthesizer can OCR text in GUI windows, but that mode is less than reliable (skips lines, misreads words, etc.) He vastly prefers using text-mode WordPerfect, as the speech synthesizer has a much easier time reading characters straight out of the text buffer in ASCII.
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