[ale] Native Office Suties

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Could it have been WPC, (Word Perfect Corp)?  I recall that the older
text-only versions of WP were ported to a boatload of platforms.  Five
years ago I worked for the State of New York, and they ran WP 4.3 on a VAX
under VMS.

WPC was bought out by Corel a few years ago.

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Phrostie wrote:

> I had used both also.  i admit that i don't spend as much time doing word
> processing as some, but thought they were reasonably solid.  
> 
> but who did the port?
> it was not corel, but some three letter company.
> that's what i can't remember.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > ALErs -
> > 
> > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Phrostie wrote:
> > > who was it that had been doing the linux port of wordperfect pryor to use of
> > > winelib?  I had been using wordperfect long before this last release.
> > 
> > I downloaded the public release (wp7?) which was pretty flakey. I bought
> > wp8 for Linux at Office Depot sometime last summer, and it's still a bit
> > goosey, though mayby not _quite_ so bad. It certainly convinced me not to 
> > consider Draw-Paint for Linux, which made it _well_ worth the $19.95!
> > 
> >  -- 
> > Regards -
> >  John Mills
> 

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