[GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Stewart.
First  as someone who still uses wordperfect every day I am happy to share 
that   Wordperfect still exists, even for DOS and Windows.
www.wpuniverse.com
In fact there are instructions for running wordperfect for DOS under 
macos, Although this project might  make running Wordperfect in the Mac 
terminal even easier.
Funny Kare fact, I have, in its original box, a copy of Wordperfect for 
Unix, something I got on freecycle years ago hoping for a copy of Canadian 
Wordperfect..something I would still love to find.
As for this project?  It is going to make rather a few individuals who use 
the command line of Linux extremely happy, especially if it ends up 
talking.
Thanks,
Karen



On Sun, 25 Sep 2022, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:

> In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis 
> Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) 
> Linux distributions: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
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> I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but Liam Proven gives a fair 
> rundown: Tavis Ormandy ports WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux — 
> https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux/
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>  Stewart
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