text Word Perfect: was Re: dosemu yet again: sorry

[Gene Collins]

Hi Janina.  Long ago, in a gallaxy far far away, I was reading about the
server edition of Word Perfect, which claimed to have the text console
version included as a part of the server package for $449 or some such. 
I was reading about this on linuxmall.com, I believe.

Gene

>Hi, Gene:
>
>We have tried to talk via our existing channels with Corel without
>success. My next move is simply to write the President which I will be
>doing next week.  Part of the annoyance is that I can't find their text
>product anywhere on the net. If it's still an active product, I can't find
>it. Every reference I get is to the gui version.
>It would still be useful to find who is selling the text based product, if
>anyone. It would still be useful to try to work up the sales chain if
>there is such a product still at Corel. Else, it's kind of a last ditch to
>write the President.
>
>I will advise.
>
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001,
>Gene Collins wrote:
>
>> Hello Janina and all.  I am using the same synthesizer for both the
>> dosemu and speakup sessions.  In order to get this to work, you need to
>> edit your Speakup source code, and comment out the lines in your driver
>> source code that register the serial device.  Again, if you don't know
>> what you are doing and it breaks because you commented out the wrong
>> code, or mangled the file in some other way, you get to keep all the
>> pieces.  Having Speakup not register the devices it will use is * NOT *
>> approved of as standard kernel policy.  If this works for you, great!
>> If it doesn't, like I said, you keep all the pieces.  My guess is that
>> Kirk and Jim probably aren't interested in answering questions about
>> altering the source code to allow sharing of the serial port between
>> Speakup and external applications.  It's my intention to try an
>> experiment with dosemu and the /dev/synthe device later this weekend to
>> see whether that works or not.  If it does, great.  If not, well, the
>> /dev/synthe device is still under development, and we'll just have to
>> wait and see whether it's possible to make this work or not.
>>
>> Speaking of Word Perfect, Janina, did you ever hear anything from the
>> fine folks at Corel about whether they would be willing to sell their
>> console version of Word Perfect separately?  I seem to remember that you
>> were going to ask them about this at one time.  Perhaps you said
>> something about this in the past, and I either missed it, or more
>> likely, just don't remember.  (smile).
>>
>> Gene
>>
>> >On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gene Collins wrote:
>> >
>> >> Janina was commenting earlier about running full-screen DOS programs
>> >> like Word Perfect 5.1 and the like with ASAP.  I run ASAP with my dosemu
>> >> sessions all the time, and use such programs as the ONLINE BIBLE,
>> >> FOXPRO, etc. with no problem.  Of course, I am using a serial synth, a
>> >> LiteTalk, and not a built-in synth like the DoubleTalk.
>> >
>> >
>> >Very glad to hear this works, and very grateful for your clear and consice
>> >instructions on how to get dosemu working with this kind of cunctionality.
>> >
>> >Question:
>> >
>> >Are you using the same synth in dosemu that you use with speakup? Or is it
>> >a separate synth?
>> >
>> >One more thing: If we can now find a way to read .wpd files -- the newer
>> >WordPerfect file format, we'd have something very powerful here. I have
>> >Corel WordPerfect for linux on CDR, but do not have it installed
>> >currently. I expect there's a binary and libraries there somewhere that
>> >would provide downgrading .wpd to the older wp format used by WordPerfect
>> >5.1. Those utilities also provide access to other formats such as M$
>> >Word's .doc. It would be very helpful, imho, if we could access these
>> >functions via command line in linux. At least, I know I'd find this
>> >useful, but I think other people would like this as well.
>> >
>> >Is anyone interested in working on this? I think I can legitimately
>> >provide the application for this purpose.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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