Re: Word Perfect on SuSE 9.1

I think you mean WordPerfect 9 is the migration (or port) from Windows
and Corel WP 8 is the one that worked well on Linux. see:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/

 I think those versions are way too old to make work on SuSE 9.1
though. Corel has decided to update the old version and sell it again
starting in April. see:
http://support.corel.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=xEhX4lqh&p_lva=&p_faqid=756282&p_created=1087575605&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTE0JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9bGludXgmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT0zJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=

But we need a solution that is not five months away. And I think it
would be nice to use Abiword since it is open source and works with MS
Word.

-Curtis

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:25:51 -0500, Wannemacher, Joseph A COL
<joseph.wannemacher@me.ngb.army.mil> wrote:
> WordPerfect did distribute several versions for Linux. I understand version
> 8 is a relatively crude migration from the windows version, but version 7
> was actually written for Linux (for Corel Linux, now marketed under a
> different name - Lycoris?). It should work with SuSE, but I haven't tried
> it.
>
> Joe Wannemacher
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Larsen
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Sent: 11/15/2004 5:49 PM
> Subject: Word Perfect on SuSE 9.1
>
> I work for a University that uses a Novell Network and we have been
> using SuSE 9.1 Pro since Novell bought it in June or July. We have
> hundreds of users that use Word Perfect on Windows. This is the one
> thing that is keeping us from switching many of them over to Linux.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a Word Perfect plugin rpm that works on
> SuSE 9.1 Pro. How long does Abiword usually take to release rpms for
> newer distributions? Is SuSE a supported distribution or are they
> only supporting Fedora Core and Mandrake?
>
> How about compiling from source? Has anyone had luck compiling the
> plugin for SuSE 9.1 from source? Is there any documentation floating
> around about that?
>
> Thanks
>
> CurtisI
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Received on Tue Nov 16 00:46:44 2004