Word Perfect: in memorium

[Alex Snow]

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or in alt.warez.*.old newsgroups. I find some pretty ancient stuff in 
those groups including att unix system 5.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 
10:31:02AM -0500, talmage at somtel.com wrote:
> 
> With all the different references to WordPerfect, I think the original 
> request is being forgotten.
> 
> Whoever it was that started this thread was looking for a copy of the old 
> WordPerfect V5.1 for Unix that ran in text mode.  Now I know that back in 
> the late 80's when WordPerfect was still a standalone company, there were 
> versions of WP5.1 that ran in Unix, as well as Xenix, but I have know idea 
> of when they phased out the text interface in favor of the x-windows 
> product.
> Apparently, the more recent versions that are available for Unix or Linux 
> run in the x-windows environment.  About this I don't know, I'm just trying 
> to clarify the original request as it seems that some of the direction this 
> thread has taken has caused some confusion.
> I do agree however, that a look at the old text based WP5.1 for Unix would 
> be interesting to play with, but I imagine you would have to find it at a 
> computer flea market or liquidator, since it was never open source or free 
> as far as I know.
> 
> At 09:41 AM 3/20/2004, you wrote:
> >Now you have me a touch worried.
> >One of the things i was looking forward to in Linux, a
> >way to demonstrate its advantages over windows to
> >companies for whom I work was word processing.
> >Granted I do not use wordperfect 5.1, but 6.1 and later still in dos on
> >this machine.
> >I knew that there was a wordperfect for Linux out there, and am
> >surprised that this requires windows.
> 
> 
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