WP for Linux updated

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 12, 2004, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>Collins Richey wrote inter alia:
>
>>>WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux (WP9, Quattro Pro 9, Paradox 9) was 
>>>>the kludged wine version.
>>>>It does not work on any Linux distro with glibc 2.3.2.
>>>>Here is the link to my Linux Journal report:
>>>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7475&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Will it work with lib-compat?
>>
>> 
>>
>Please explain how you would use lib-compat.
>
>I tried installing glibc2.2.5 or such in SuSE 8.2.  I used MC to strip 
>out the glibc 2.2.5 files from the older SuSE RPM and copied them into a 
>directory.  I then wrote a short script with the path (environment 
>variable) to the old glibc to start WPO2KL.  It did not work.  The weak 
>link is the Fontastic font manager WPO2KL uses; this is the component 
>that fails under glibc2.3.2
>
>I also tried some libs "JRT" (from the Corel WPO2KL newsgroup) has made 
>available.  He reports success with RH 9,  but cannot get it to print.

I have successfully run WP 8 on SuSE 8.2 and SuSE 9.0 using their old
shared library RPM.  I can't say how well it worked since I'm not a great
word processing user (I prefer vi and groff :-), but my customers who had
been using it on Caldera eDesktop 2.4 haven't complained.

Now if we could only get the old WP version that ran on SCO OpenDesktop
that had a straight character interface instead of just the X11 one...

Bill
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