Word perfect

[Roger Oberholtzer]

This helped a bit. I can now install and run WP. Except I do not have a key.
And it seems I cannot save the file without one. One step. And another.

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:23:27 -0500 Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> StarOffice has a WP filter, but only for its Windows version.
> 
> >
> >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".
> >
> Makes no difference to WP8.
> 
> >
> >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.
> >
> There is a plug-in for Abiword that provides import filters.  The WP 
> filter is quite good.
> 
> >
> >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.
> >
> SuSE has shlibs5, which you should install with YAST.  That provides 
> libc5, writes /etc/ld.so.conf, runs ldconfig etc.
> Your Caldera WP8 RPM installs in /opt, and the executable is ~/wpbin/xwp.
> If you get an error after installing (forgot the exact wording) open wp8 
> as root/su, then run~/wpbin/xwp -adm, and in the preferences tab of the 
> little window that opens next to the WP8 desktop disable file locking.  
> This particular little problem seems to be quite frequent with new
> Linuces.
> 
> >
> >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.
> >
> Current Abiword and Koffice have WP import filters.  They work on 
> Libranet 2.8.1 (stock install.)
> The Abiword filter is the more capable.


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