[vox-tech] Re: [vox] I'm Trying to Love Linux...

[Peter Jay Salzman]

three suggestions:


1. does wp have a verbose initialization switch?   try something like -v or -V.

2. also,

   a. type "which wordperfect".  you should get a full pathname.  suppose
      it's /usr/local/wordperfect.

   b. type "file wordperfect".

   if it's a shell script, we may be in luck.   if it's short, post it to the
   list.  if it's long, send it to me.   don't send it at all if it's a
   binary file, of course.  :)

3. tech support  :)

pete



begin: Richard Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> quote
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Heh.  All of that is much appreciated, and I do intend to learn LaTeX at
> some point.  For now, though, I have been so impressed with WP for
> Windows that I went and spent $150 on the Linux version.  Having spent
> that money, I would feel really really stupid if I didn't get the
> program working.
> 
> I contacted Corel Tech Support and was told that there is a patch on the
> Corel ftp server to download and run instead of the install script that
> comes on the CD.  I ran that, and it claims that WordPerfect was
> installed successfully.  However, when I try to start WordPerfect by
> typing in the command "wordperfect" at the command line, absolutely
> nothing happens.  Not even an error message. I checked the permissions
> on the files, and they all seem appropriately set, so I don't quite know
> what's going on.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > begin: Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com> quote
> > >
> > > Or even better, learn LaTeX.  There's also a GUI front-end
> > > for it called LyX that's pretty cool.
> > 
> > woo hoo!  that gets my vote!
> > 
> > > Also AbiWord is worth a look.
> > 
> > agreed.  i'm a happy abiword user.  it has gotten much more stable in recent
> > months.  active development here.
> > 
> > > KOffice isn't ready for prime
> > > time yet, but bears watching.
> > 
> > besides using lots of libs which may not be on your system.
> > 
> > great advice, rod!
> > 
> > pete
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