Linux word processing like it's 1997!
In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) Linux distributions: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but Liam Proven gives a fair rundown: Tavis Ormandy ports WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux — https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux/ Stewart
Hi Stewart. First as someone who still uses wordperfect every day I am happy to share that Wordperfect still exists, even for DOS and Windows. www.wpuniverse.com In fact there are instructions for running wordperfect for DOS under macos, Although this project might make running Wordperfect in the Mac terminal even easier. Funny Kare fact, I have, in its original box, a copy of Wordperfect for Unix, something I got on freecycle years ago hoping for a copy of Canadian Wordperfect..something I would still love to find. As for this project? It is going to make rather a few individuals who use the command line of Linux extremely happy, especially if it ends up talking. Thanks, Karen On Sun, 25 Sep 2022, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) Linux distributions: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but Liam Proven gives a fair rundown: Tavis Ormandy ports WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux — https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux/
Stewart
On 2022-09-25 16:53, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) Linux distributions
I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I did a search and found out there is a project called WordTsar which is supposed to be WordStar for the 21st century. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On 2022-09-25 22:59, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I did a search and found out there is a project called WordTsar which is supposed to be WordStar for the 21st century.
WordStar hung on for years. An author friend of mine was distraught when Microsoft Word removed the ability to use WordStar keys. It was surprisingly recently, too. WordTsar looks surprisingly comprehensive. I'm a little surprised it's a graphical application, but the developer has their reasons. I've run MS Word 5.5 (the DOS version that MS released for free for Y2K compliance reasons) and Protext under dosemu quite successfully. The first version of Protext I had was on a 16K EPROM for the Amstrad CPC (Z80) computer. It loaded instantly, and was a great tool for undistracted writing. cheers, Stewart
And... to round out your GUI-free desktop: Lotus 1-2-3, natively ported. https://github.com/taviso/123elf Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 12:01 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2022-09-25 22:59, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I did a search and found out there is a project called WordTsar which is supposed to be WordStar for the 21st century.
WordStar hung on for years. An author friend of mine was distraught when Microsoft Word removed the ability to use WordStar keys. It was surprisingly recently, too.
WordTsar looks surprisingly comprehensive. I'm a little surprised it's a graphical application, but the developer has their reasons.
I've run MS Word 5.5 (the DOS version that MS released for free for Y2K compliance reasons) and Protext under dosemu quite successfully. The first version of Protext I had was on a 16K EPROM for the Amstrad CPC (Z80) computer. It loaded instantly, and was a great tool for undistracted writing.
cheers, Stewart
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On 2022-09-26 13:48, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
And... to round out your GUI-free desktop: Lotus 1-2-3, natively ported. https://github.com/taviso/123elf <https://github.com/taviso/123elf>
Like the other one, x86 only. I'd be really impressed if it ran on ARM. cheers Stewart
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