[oclug] Running an old WordPerfect for SCO binary under RedHat...

Jeff Breker jbreker at sympatico.ca
Fri Nov 21 14:44:02 EST 2003


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:28:55 -0500
<oclug at nthdimension.net> wrote:

> Any thoughts on the above?
> 
> Just converted a client over to linux off of an old SCO box.  I got
> their business app over all well and fine but I was just having them
> go through and test things out and they mentioned that WordPefect
> wasn't working... Whoops.  I forgot all about it.  They have an old
> 5.1 wordperfect for unix character mode that runs on their green
> screens...
> 
> Corel's discontinued 'wp' so I'm thinking maybe I can run the old 'wp'
> in some emulation mode or something?  Any one ever have to do
> something similar?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Chris Nolan
> http://nthdimension.net/
> http://pvxhost.com/
> 
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