[kwlug-disc] [BCLUG] WordPerfect 7 for UNIX, running perfectly happily in a Linux terminal in 2022

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 01:05:14AM -0700, BCLUG wrote:
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> For those among us with fond memories of WordPerfect, ... it's back.
> 
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> Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero fame has ported the Unix version to
> Linux and released a *.deb:
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> > https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux

Awesome! I was just wondering about WP the other day. That's the first programme I bought for my brand new 486sx running IBMDOS after I discovered that there wasn't much I could do with a computer that just had DOS :)

Doubt I'll go back to it though.  It's been too long and would likely be a learning curve.

But, it's fun to hear it's still around.  I'll probably download the deb and give it a whirl just for the hell of it, but I rarely need fancy word processing anymore so libreoffice works fine.

Thanks for the news :)

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