FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 05 January 2007 14:30, 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 :-).
>
> Bill
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I just did a quick check and OO.org 2.04 was able to open a Corel WP document 
that I created in 1995. I have no idea what version that was, just that I 
still was using M$ Windoze in those days. :-)

cmr
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