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[Leon Goldstein]

Gary wrote inter alia:

>> WPO2KL's chief importance for me is Paradox.  For word processing I
>> prefer WP8.1 (salvaged from Corel Linux deluxe).
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> Yah, I too like it.. have used it for years.. geesh, many now that I 
> think about it. 

Paradox, or WP8.1?  The early releases of Libranet did not have the 
libc5 and other libs for WP8.  I asked the Libranet folks to add them.  
They obligingly did.  Libranet (since 2.7) has a WP8 Compatibility 
package (? la SuSE's shlibs5).  I like Linux distro's that are friendly 
to WP8.  Xandros also provides support libs, but curiously does not 
provide much in the way of support documentation.  A Xandros user told 
me that when people query the Xandros users' list or tech support, they 
are told to look at the Libranet support data base for the answers!  
This strikes me as odd, since Xandros nominally assumed Corel's "heritage."

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>> I recently bought a copy of TextMaker (tipped off about this app from a
>> post on this list) which I use for editing the occasional HTML document.
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> I tried their demo, found it very slow going to page 2, and hard to 
> type.. They gave me a fix to allocate more memory, but still did not 
> help a lot, so I dropped it.

There was a promo in November so I bought a discounted copy.  There has 
been a subsequent major patch release.  As I mentioned, I only use it 
for occasional HTML editing.

> BTW, CodeWeavers is coming out (exact date unknown, but they are 
> working on it) with a release for WP, don't know if it will the 2000 
> suite, or just WP, but this too I have been waiting for.. sounds 
> interesting. Wouldn't it be nice if they threw in Paradox, et al?  I 
> suspect it will be out probably second quarter of next year, but 
> unsure, just heard rumors on the suggested date. 

Source of this intelligence?  I am on the CodeWeavers mail list and get 
occasional notices of updates from them.  I have asked several times in 
the past when to expect support for WPx/Win, but the answers are always 
evasive.  I suspect that Quattro Pro and Paradox may already run.  Some 
time ago I was able to get QP to start and sort of run under wine.  I 
think the Borland API is a lot tighter than WP's, so getting those apps 
to run would probably not be too difficult.

I am also waiting for support for OCR.  I have a Win app called "ABBYY" 
(made in Russia) that works very well, and outputs to WP format (sine 
qua non for me).  I have managed to start ABBYY in wine, but it 
(understandably) does not run the scanner, and its OCR  output from a 
Linux scan is unusable.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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