Does anyone have a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 for linux?

[Tom and Esther Ward]

That works fine. I've done that in the past, and I still have a copy of wp51
for dos laying around my office somewhere. Although, I have moved on to
markup languages, and if I am really in a hurry I use Openoffice 1.1 and
gnopernicus.

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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 for linux?


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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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