Word perfect

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004, 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.

The current version of StarOffice is supposed to have WP import filters
(the only reason I know to buy it).

...
>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.

One of our techs loaded WP 8.0 on a SuSE 9.0 system last week using the
libc5 RPM from SuSE (it wasn't called libc, but shlibs5).

Bill
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