[BCLUG] WordPerfect 7 for UNIX, running perfectly happily in a Linux terminal in 2022
BCLUG
admin at bclug.ca
Thu Jul 21 04:05:14 EDT 2022
For those among us with fond memories of WordPerfect, ... it's back.
Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero fame has ported the Unix version to
Linux and released a *.deb:
> https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux
>
> LibreOffice happily opens and converts WordPerfect format files.
>
(Really wish Thunderbird supported hidden codes, it's been mysteriously
breaking my sentences, converting to/from quote blocks for NO apparent
reason.)
> Realistically, though, it is probably easier to use DOS WordPerfect
> in DOSemu or similar.
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