Word perfect

[Jim Conner]

I haven't dealt with WP since WP 5.1 for DOS(circa 1992).  I have Abiword 
2.0.0 and it lists WP 6/7/8/9 to import.  IIRC, there is a newer Abiword that 
has been released than that.  You might try to upgrade and then see if it 
will import them.  If that don't work, I know that there are a few people on 
this list that still run WP on linux and know how to get it working.

Jim

On Monday 02 February 2004 06:56 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I have inherited some Word Perfect docs that I need to get into StarOffice.
> Yeehaa. Anywaty, I see that Open- and StarOffice do not import Word Perfect
> files.
>
> It seems that the files are from WP 5 and, possibly, WP 9 as well. I deduce
> this by looking at the start of the file, where I see either "WPC5" or
> "WPC9".
>
> I also tried abiword to read these, with no luck. Version 1.99.5 (withh
> SUSE 9) does not list it when opening files and seems not to autodetect it.
> Version 0.99.3 at least lists WP 6/7/8, but also will not read the files.
>
> So, I thought I would dig up my WP 8 from an old Caldera 2.2 release. It is
> a libc.so.5 sort of beast, and I do not have such a system. I did install
> the RPM on SuSE 9, but the xwp binary will not even load, let alone run.
> Even 'ldd xwp' fails. Although 'file xwp' says it is an ELF binary.
>
> So, what reasonable options might I have for converting some dozen or so
> docs of 70 or so pages each into, say, word, so that I can get them into
> StarOffice? I know that there are WP users on this list, but I never really
> read those threads very closely.

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