FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007, Voigt, John C. wrote:
>On Friday, January 05, 2007 11:44 AM, Leon Goldstein
>[metapsych at earthlink.net eloquently noted: 
>
><aplogies in advance for possibly stupid Outhouse formatting>
>
><snippage>
>
>> Interestingly, some SuSE 10 users have gotten good results by
>> installing the shlibs5 package group from an earlier release.
>
>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.

The last time I looked, OpenOffice.org didn't have a WP import filter,
but the not-for-free StarOffice from Sun did.  The cost of StarOffice
would be far less than writing a conversion program.

Once upon a time I wrote a program to convert Scripsit word processing
documents to WordPerfect 4.3 (which any word processor worthy of the name
could read).  As I remember, the folks at WordPerfect were quite helpful
with the technical specs for their binary file formats (as opposed to the
Tandy folks who either didn't have a clue what went on inside Scripsit
or weren't telling so I had to figure that out for myself :-).

Bill
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