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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 07:12:17 -0400
From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>
To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: wordperfect for Linux
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Can't help you.  I haven't "been using WordPerfect", which I gather means
you use the Windows platform at times.  

Since I through my CD in the ash can, I can't offer it to you.  But, if you
really want to look at it, it's available from Caldera for $150 or so.
And you might try a Linux listserv or newsgroup.  There are probably a
number who'd happily give away their copy.

On Sun, Apr 20, 1997 at 10:54:05AM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive wrote:
> Are you saying that WordPerfect 6.0 is a dud or that it they just bombed the
> Linux port?  I've been using WordPerfect for a lot of things, so having it
> on another platform would be nice for me.  Also, I think having one of the
> big three in word processors on our platform would be a feather in our cap.
> 
> K.S.
> 
> 
> At 09:04 AM 4/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >It's a piece of crap.  Don't bother.  They're already writing version
> >8.0 for Windows.  6.0 is a very awkward, clunky program.  
> >
> >I've run it on Linux.  Don't know if it'll run on FreeBSD.  I tossed the CD
> >in the ash can a year ago.  And it *wasn't* free.
> >
> >On Sun, Apr 20, 1997 at 02:15:01AM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive wrote:
> >> >SO looks very familiar too, and though it doesn't do WP format it's
> >> >Word import/export is pretty fine.  I had a lot of fun editing Yahoo's
> >> >title page in HTML mode too. 8)
> >> >
> >> By the way, didn't Caldera hook up somebody to bring WordPerfect 6.0 to
> >> Linux? What about getting that on FreeBSD?
> >> 
> >> K.S.
> >> 
>