FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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 :-).

An idea that no one has suggested, and might be the best long term 
solution (unless you really enjoy hacking WP8 into place every time a new 
distro comes out, or praying that the old crusty distro still works on 
ancient hardware which might fail eventually anyway), is to use a chroot.

Take your working filesystem image where WP8 works fine, and use dd to 
create a fileystem image in a file.  Then you just move/put that 
filesystem image in any other distro (FC6, SuSE-10.2, etc) , mount it over 
loopback, chroot into the mount point, and run WP8.

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