Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:06:51 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: noc@hdk5.net Cc: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>, scott mcclellan <rockabyeinn@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new to os Message-ID: <201108191006.p7JA6pwP007684@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:45:57 -1000." <4E4DDC75.7020503@hdk5.net>
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> Aloha Lars, > > You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were > created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can > read them for transfer to a contemporary program? Do you mean Word Perfect ? Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE & was free, while Corel charged for the MS based version ! I have distfile MD5 (GUILG00.GZ) = 386d2c4c1422992e8f8242bd74f3f705 -r--r--r-- 1 jhs staff 23730473 Mar 12 2002 GUILG00.GZ It got taken out of FreeBSD ports/ some years back. http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/editors/wordperfect/pkg/README.JHS You might need to either: upgrade port to run it on a new BSD run it on an old machine or emulator of an old FreeBSD Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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