From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 10:18:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BB81065678 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:18:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28458FC19 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.72]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4231016B4AA; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:18:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:15:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:15:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: "Julian H. Stacey" In-Reply-To: <201108191006.p7JA6pwP007684@fire.js.berklix.net> Message-ID: References: <201108191006.p7JA6pwP007684@fire.js.berklix.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" , scott mcclellan , noc@hdk5.net Subject: Re: new to os X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:18:47 -0000 On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> Aloha Lars, >> >> You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were >> created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can >> read them for transfer to a contemporary program? > > Do you mean Word Perfect ? > Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE & was free, > while Corel charged for the MS based version ! If I recall correctly, this was a Linux version which ran with Linux compatibility as it was then. Also it only ran with a GUI - the command line version was available for $$$. I have no idea whether it could be persuaded (easily) to run with recent Linux compatibility. > > I have distfile > MD5 (GUILG00.GZ) = 386d2c4c1422992e8f8242bd74f3f705 > -r--r--r-- 1 jhs staff 23730473 Mar 12 2002 GUILG00.GZ > > It got taken out of FreeBSD ports/ some years back. > > http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/editors/wordperfect/pkg/README.JHS > > You might need to either: > upgrade port to run it on a new BSD > run it on an old machine > or emulator of an old FreeBSD > > Cheers, > Julian > -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266