WordPerfect problem identified

Peter Breton pbreton at cs.umb.edu
Fri Oct 7 11:56:46 EDT 1994


> > Hi:
> > where is the ftp site for word perfect for linux???
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > ray at xochi.tezcat.com
> > 
> 
> There's a WordPerfect DEMO available for ftp; it claims to be a full 
> version of WP 5.1 with printing and saving disabled.
> 
> The demo is actually for SCO Unix, but there's an emulator under 
> development for Linux, called "ibcs2", that will ultimately let Linux run 
> SCO binaries. The emulator is supposed to run the WP demo already.
> 
> I got past the prior problem with it, but now it complains about missing 
> device drivers (/dev/XOR, for example).
> 
> The emulator, and the current kernel, is available on tsx-11.mit.edu. The 
> WP 5.1 demo is available on ftp.wordperfect.com.

Wouldn't it be easier to just run WP 5.1 under the DOS emulator? True,
it's not free, but you should be able to buy it for a song.

			Peter

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