On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:43 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 1/26/2013 2:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> There was a WordPerfect included in Red Hat Linux around about release 5 >> or so. To get it to work on later releases you had to install the >> required dependency packages from the install CD along with the >> WordPerfect package. I bet it would still run on CentOS if you >> installed it with it's dependency packages. > > not if those dependencies, like an ancient version of libc, libX, etc, > conflict with the much much newer versions in your RHEL/CentOS version. Not sure how word perfect got into the thread. I used the letters WP for word processing and now Word Perfect is being discussed - i found it far from 'perfect' when i used it years ago and it never deserved replacing Wordstar... whose keybinding is still preferred today by writers (only reason to use Emacs really). james