Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:49:04 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, scott mcclellan <rockabyeinn@yahoo.com>, noc@hdk5.net Subject: Re: new to os Message-ID: <201108191049.p7JAn48a008174@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:15:33 CDT." <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108190506580.3199@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >> 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 ! > > If I recall correctly, this was a Linux version which ran with Linux > compatibility as it was then. Yes that sounds plausible, exepecially as reading my URL below I got it from a CDROM on a linux magazine > Also it only ran with a GUI ..........^^^^ No idea, only ever tried it with X Windows. > - the command > line version was available for $$$. It never occured to me a command line version of WordPerfect might exist. The graphical version to run on Microsoft cost money. The Linux version was free, that ran on FreeBSD. I used to tell Microsoft users that with pleasure, as an incentive for them to consider escaping the Microsoft monopoly & go to free source OSes (what Corel wanted :-). > I have no idea whether it could be persuaded (easily) to run with recent > Linux compatibility. Me either, & no interest to try. Those who have old WP data can try if they want. Of course, if it was a company who had WordPerfect data to rescue, I'd be willing. > > 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 > > > > -- > Lars Eighner > http://www.larseighner.com/index.html > 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 > > 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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