On Tue, Nov 23, 2010, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 11/22/10 9:57 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:29:12PM -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote:
Windows only, unfortunately.
When did they stop publishing *nix versions? I worked extensively with that monstrosity 15-16 years ago on SCO / MWC Coherent.
I don't think they ever did a real native *nix verson - they had a slightly custom version of wine wrapped around the windows code. And there was some strange Microsoft involvement in the Corel company too - probably why you haven't heard much from them.
I'm pretty sure they did have such a version; WP was the first 'real' word processor available for LINUX. I ran it on a LINUX host and a dozen or so NCD X-terminals. It worked, but I can't imagine anyone having been a fan. It was slow, clunky, and just ugly.
WordPerfect was available for SCO Xenix decades ago. I wrote a conversion program to convert Radio Shack Scripsit files to WP 4.3 which was pretty much the Lingua Franca of WP files in the late 1980s and early '90s (amazingly I sold a copy of this within the last 6 months to a police department that had been using Scripsit continuously).
And as for reveal codes... OOo has a mode that displays non-printable characters. Beyond that I just don't see the point. OOo's document collaboration and versioning tools are far and away better than what I recall from WP.
WP users *LOVED* reveal codes as it allows people to see exactly what's going on under the hood, and even fix some things when the files get out of whack. I answered the phone one time, and the opening from the caller was ``I want Reveal Codes''.
I have never used word processing programs for much of anything serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things. Back when I was managing Radio Shack Computer Centers, I got pretty good with Scripsit, mostly so I could sell and answer people's questions (and was a whiz with VisiCalc and MultiPlan :-).
Bill