FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Voigt, John C. wrote:

>On Friday, January 05, 2007 11:44 AM, Leon Goldstein
>[metapsych at earthlink.net eloquently noted: 
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>>Interestingly, some SuSE 10 users have gotten good results by
>>installing the shlibs5 package group from an earlier release.
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>Yes this works well for me so far. I've used various versions of
>WordPerfect in Windoze and Linux and have a rather large (at least for
>me) number of WP documents I have yet to convert to something else. WP
>just seems to do the Right Thing(tm) and I've been hesitant to convert
>all of my stuff to something else. The "reveal codes" option is awesome.
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>Installing the shlibs5 package (for SuSE anyway) has done the trick so
>far. Hopefully someone will keep a updated version available, as it is
>no longer included anywhere in the SuSE distro. The src doesn't always
>recompile nicely either.
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>HTH,
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>John V.
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I have archived SuSE shlibs5 (shlibs5-2001.7.29-40) as well as 
type1inst, groff-1 and imwheel from IIRC SuSE 8.  I have also acquired 
the Mandriva libs.  I'm hoping someone might be able to point me to the 
FC6 libs I need.

With SuSE I think you must install shlibs5 with YAST for a proper setup, 
e.g. editing /etc/ld.so.conf to include the shlibs5.

WPD file conversion can be tricky.  Even WP9 - component of the now 
comatose WPO 2000/L - doesn't always preserve formatting.  I've found 
StarOffice 8/L to be more useful, since it can use the original WP T1 
fonts and now has a WP import filter.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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