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 -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Good men can muddle through a bad constitution, but bad men can wreck the best of them. -- Aristotle