Does anyone have a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 for linux?
Alex Snow
alex_snow at gmx.net
Sat Mar 20 09:22:03 EST 2004
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what about running wp 5.1 for dos in dosemu?
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at
10:22:59PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> Hi, Cris.
> I doubt you can get your hands on a WP 5.1 for Linux, but there are
> alternatives to this. I am thinking of three of them right off of the top of
> my head.
>
> 1. Download OpenOffice.org 1.1 from OpenOffice.org and get and install the
> java-access-bridge for gnome. After you configure everything right you can
> get some use out of OpenOffice, but it has a long ways to go before it works
> as well as Windows based wordprocessors.
> 2. You can purchase StarOffice 7, but it doesn't work that much better than
> OpenOffice with gnopernicus.
> 3. Learn a markup language such as xml or html which is totally text based,
> and works in any text editor you like.
> I would choose xml as many computer manuals such as the Mandrake users
> guides are written in xml, and printed out looking as good as if not better
> than a high priced wordprocessor like MS Word.
> It is simply a matter of learning xml, and learning on how to make the
> document look good.
> Hth.
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