<OT> Wordperfect 5 for unix

[Herb DeLong]

In the WP book I have says that 'holding down the Alt key and pressing the
corresponding number on the number pad( not the numbers at the top of the
keyboard)
hyphen seems to be 45 and dash is 95. Its hard to read the way my book is
printed.
Herb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Hammer" <joel at hammershome.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: <OT> Wordperfect 5 for unix


> Is anyone using wordperfect 5 for unix?
>
> I have a problem with hyphens and dashes.
>
> I need to find out which ascii characters wordperfect
> is using for the dash and for the hypen feature. On our
> keyboard at work, the simple - key is really a hypen
> request in wordperfect, while the [home] [-] sequence
> inserts a real -. Wordperfect has jumped around over
> the years in how you insert a hypen or a dash into its
> documents.
>
> I can't save wordperfect documents at work to a local hard
> drive (we run wordperfect off a server) and so I can't
> analyze the ascii code properly.
>
> My problem is we are cutting and pasting documents into
> wordperfect from a browser, and the -'s are being converted
> to hypens, rather than remainding dashes. I have to concoct
> some cure for this.
>
> So, if you have wordperfect 5 for unix, please email me
> a document that has dashes and hypens in it, labelled
> preferably!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel
>
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