Re: [OS:N:] Office Software

On 16 Aug 2003, Charles McColm wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 22:10, Access Systems wrote:
> 
> > > Actually I still have WordPerfect 8 for Linux, but I did my last
> > how do you get WP to function past Red Hat 7.2 (or equivalent kernel)??
> 
> WP 8 runs on a non-networked non-essential machine that has on old
> version of glibc.  I found the instructions somewhere, but it's been so
> long that I don't remember, sorry.

I have the instructions just hate the idea of having to have adedicated
machine just to run WP...and the instructions don't work past RH 7.2 or at
least I don't have the smarts to figure out how to make the source code
changes, now we were so desperate that with RH 7.3 we hired a  linux guru
to work out the bugs (advantage of open source) and make it work, it was
buggy but worked but when the kernel went to 2.4 that pretty much was more
than we felt we could handle. and we figured out a klutzy way to use our
old WP documents in open office so it jjust sort of fell by the wayside

but I still want "Reveal codes" 

> > I'm am really PO at Corel since I bought office suite 2000 (WP9) but then
> > they won't even support it in Linux nor will they support WP8 for linux
> 
> Michael Cowpland, the former president of Corel, was the big Linux
> advocate at the company.  The board got scared and dumped Cowpland. 
> There is a lot we could speculate about: a cash infusion from Microsoft,
> the demise of companies like Loki (and how Corel could mirror that
> demise), Corel's earnings...  I'm not sure that even with the extra cash
> Corel is going to make it through the next few years.  A couple of years
> ago Corel Magazine in the UK died a horrible death.  It reminded me of
> when OS/2 Magazine went under and was later followed by OS/2.

so I have heard.  

Bob


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