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<address><email>rick@linuxmafia.com</email></address>
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<pubdate>1.3.2, 2002-08-08</pubdate>
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<pubdate>1.3.5, 2002-10-04</pubdate>
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<year>2002</year>
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<para>I'd like to gratefully acknowledge the HOWTO documents at <ulink url="http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html">http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html</ulink>, which should be consulted for detailed installation instructions for WP on current Linux distributions. Also, the <ulink url="news://news.astcomm.net/linux.astcomm.net">news://news.astcomm.net/linux.astcomm.net</ulink> and <ulink url="news://cnews.corel.com/corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux">news://cnews.corel.com/corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux</ulink> newsgroups' comments have been invaluable.</para>
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<para>I would also like to thank Leon A. Goldstein and Valentijn Sessink specifically for their valuable feedback.</para>
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<para>I would also like to thank Leon A. Goldstein and Valentijn Sessink specifically for their valuable feedback, and Bob Tennent for information on the libsafe problem.</para>
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<sect2 id="bigpicture"><title>The Big Picture.</title>
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<sect3 id="whatsgood"><title>What's good about WordPerfect?</title>
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<para>Several things. In an era when leading word processors gobble dozens of megs of RAM just launching, WP (v. 8.x) is thrifty -- about 6 MB. By comparison, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 or Star Office 6.0 takes 73 MB to launch. (On the other hand, AbiWord 1.02 also uses only 6 MB, and KWord 1.1.1 a moderate 17 MB.) It's a stable, fast, polished, full-featured product. It has "reveal codes". It has a nearly unique "shrink to fit" printing feature that quickly becomes indispensible once you've experienced it. WP's print module uses the MS-DOS version's time-tested, robust printer drivers by default, expanding greatly the range of compatible printers. (WP can alternatively hand off to standard Unix printing subsystems -- lpr/lprng/gnulpr/cups/pdq/etc. -- in "Passthru Postscript" mode.) It has excellent built-in mathematical, financial, logical, and string-handling functions. It has excellent table support and a useful speed-table-formatting feature. It has a robust built-in database engine for table sorting and searching.</para>
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<para>Several things. In an era when leading word processors gobble dozens of megs of RAM just launching, WP (v. 8.x) is thrifty -- about 6 MB. By comparison, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 or Star Office 6.0 takes 73 MB to launch. (On the other hand, AbiWord 1.02 also uses only 6 MB, and KWord 1.1.1 a moderate 17 MB.) It's a stable, fast, polished, full-featured product. It has "reveal codes". It has a nearly unique "shrink to fit" printing feature that quickly becomes indispensable once you've experienced it. WP's print module uses the MS-DOS version's time-tested, robust printer drivers by default, expanding greatly the range of compatible printers. (WP can alternatively hand off to standard Unix printing subsystems -- lpr/lprng/gnulpr/cups/pdq/etc. -- in "Passthru Postscript" mode.) It has excellent built-in mathematical, financial, logical, and string-handling functions. It has excellent table support and a useful speed-table-formatting feature. It has a robust built-in database engine for table sorting and searching.</para>
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<para>It's still the best tool available on Linux for reading WordPerfect .wpd files created elsewhere. (AbiWord and wp2latex also qualify.)</para>
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<para>WP 8.1 Light Edition for Linux was the bundled WP copy included in boxed sets of CLOS Standard Edition. According to one report, it differs from WP 8.1 PE only in having approximately 1/3 as many included fonts (only one of the Deluxe bundle's three .deb-format font archives).</para>
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<para>The latest and apparently final WP version for Linux was v. 9, promoted by Corel as "WordPerfect Office 2000". This FAQ will have little to say about WP 9 for Linux, as it was not a true native port, but rather consisted of Win32 binary code running in a winelib emulation environment -- with predictable RAM bloat and instability, as a result. (Boxed sets only were offered.)</para>
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<para>The latest and apparently final WP version for Linux was v. 9, promoted by Corel as "WordPerfect Office 2000". This FAQ will have little to say about WP 9 for Linux, as it was not a true native port, but rather consisted of Win32 binary code running in a WINE emulation environment -- with predictable RAM bloat and instability, as a result. (Boxed sets only were offered.)</para>
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<para>What binary packages these libs and dynamic loader will occupy differs between distributions. If in doubt, documents linked from <ulink url="http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html">http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html</ulink> may give details for your distribution.</para>
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<sect2 id="segfault"><title>How do I stop the WP 8.x installer from getting diagnostic message "../install.wp: [: 18-10: integer expression expected" followed a short while later by termination with a Segmentation Fault error?</title>
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<para>You are running with "libsafe" enabled, a wrapper library that aims to protect system security by blocking library calls that are known to be vulnerable to buffer overflows. Unfortunately, that technique blocks execution of any binary that attempts a dynamic library call to libc5.x. Both the WP 8.x installer and WP 8.0's runtime binary were compiled as libc5 executables.</para>
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<para>To confirm that libsafe is the culprit, type "echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep libsafe". You can turn off that setting by typing "unset LD_PRELOAD". Then, remove the libsafe reference in /etc/ld.so.preload, if this exists. You should now be able to successfully run the installer, and can call the main "xwp" binary using a shell script that runs "unset LD_PRELOAD" just prior to executing xwp.</para>
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<sect2 id="nfs"><title>How do I fix the WP 8.x installer's failures resulting from errors copying files onto my NFS network drive?</title>
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<para>You're using one of the personal editions of WP 8.x. Only the server editions include code required to enable support of NFS file locking (which in server editions you can enable via the WPadmin login facility). Otherwise, neither the installer nor the WP program binary will run if any components are on (or will be installed to) any NFS mounted drive, including user settings in users' home directories and temporary files in /tmp.</para>
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<sect2 id="fitrix"><title>How do I fix MS-Word import/export filters (the Filtrix module) on WP 8.x for Linux?</title>
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<para>The third-party Filtrix module, because of a programming oversight concerning date-handling, doesn't work on systems whose current date is set later than September 9, 2001: On attempts to import/export MS-Word files, it fails with error message "Filtrix unable to convert this file". The problem can be fixed by installing a wrapper by Valentijn Sessink, available at <ulink url="http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/">http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/</ulink>.</para>
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<sect2 id="printing"><title>How do I get printing to work?</title>
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<para>By default, WP for Linux (uniquely) ignores Linux's system printing facilities, and uses its own print engine and drivers. (The latter are the same as for WP on MS-DOS, giving the program very broad printer support. More are available at <ulink url="http://www.wpdos.org/">http://www.wpdos.org/</ulink>.) You need to configure the printing subsystem. As the root user, start xwp with the -admin (or -adm) command-line option, then select and install an appropriate printer driver, using the Add Printer Driver widget. (In such cases but not the Passthru option discussed next, specify "-oraw" in the Lpr options of Select Destination.) Alternatively, select "Passthru Postscript" to hand off jobs to the system printing daemon.</para>
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<para>By default, WP for Linux (uniquely) ignores Linux's system printing facilities, and uses its own print engine and drivers. (The latter are the same as for WP on MS-DOS, giving the program very broad printer support. More are available at <ulink url="http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/">http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/</ulink>, which should be reachable as <ulink url="http://www.wpdos.org/">http://www.wpdos.org/</ulink>.) You need to configure the printing subsystem. As the root user, start xwp with the -admin (or -adm) command-line option, then select and install an appropriate printer driver, using the Add Printer Driver widget. (In such cases but not the Passthru option discussed next, specify "-oraw" in the Lpr options of Select Destination.) Alternatively, select "Passthru Postscript" to hand off jobs to the system printing daemon.</para>
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<sect2 id="wpexc"><title>I see the process "wpexc" still running in my system process table, even after quitting WordPerfect. If the WordPerfect program is "xwp", what's "wpexc", and why does it need to remain running?</title>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.scola.ac-paris.fr/Linux/bureautique/Word%20Perfect%208/">ftp://ftp.scola.ac-paris.fr/Linux/bureautique/Word%20Perfect%208/</ulink> ,</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/wordperfect/linux/">ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/wordperfect/linux/</ulink> ,</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.asker.net/pub/linux/corel/">http://www.asker.net/pub/linux/corel/</ulink> , </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/</ulink> (note UK, DE localisation files) , and</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/</ulink> (complete set of localisation files) , and</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.invivo.net/pub/SOFTS/telechargement/Linux/WORDPERF/">http://www.invivo.net/pub/SOFTS/telechargement/Linux/WORDPERF/</ulink> (note FR localisation files).</para></listitem>
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<para>(The ES=Spanish archive at <ulink
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<para>It's packaged either as a single gzipped 23 MB tarball (GUILG00.gz), a single 17 MB RPM archive (included in Caldera OpenLinux through v. 2.3) that installs ready to run, a 22 MB RPM archive (in SuSE Linux boxed sets through 6.1, and a similar one in older boxed sets of Linux-Mandrake) that installs tar archives in /usr/lib/wp8/ that must then be separately installed by running /usr/lib/wp8/Runme, or as a collection of seven separate tarballs (GUILG00.gz through GUILG06.gz). The program also remains available on a US $3 CD-ROM at <ulink url="http://linuxcentral.com/">http://linuxcentral.com/</ulink> or <ulink url="http://www.linuxbuy.com/">http://www.linuxbuy.com/</ulink>. Ditto on a US $1 CD-ROM at <ulink url="http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/">http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/</ulink>.</para>
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<para>The filenames listed are for the default US English version: The filenames for other localisations are included on <ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html</ulink>, and download sources for three of those are noted above.</para>
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<para>The filenames listed are for the default US English version: The filenames for other localisations are included on <ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html</ulink>, and download sources for all nine localisation archives are noted above.</para>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8">http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm">http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/html/9201.htm">http://linux.corel.com/support/html/9201.htm</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://octoped.net/linux/wp8.html">http://octoped.net/linux/wp8.html</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.rodsbooks.com/wpfonts/">http://www.rodsbooks.com/wpfonts/</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/">http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/Readme.html</ulink> (info on additional language modules)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/topic/1,,10+57+26117,00.html">http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/topic/1,,10+57+26117,00.html</ulink></para></listitem>
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<para>At one time, Corel offered free-of-charge localisation add-ons for nine other languages and countries, at <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/wp8/download_instr.htm">http://linux.corel.com/products/wp8/download_instr.htm</ulink>, but removed them not long after it closed down its Linux division in May 2001.</para>
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<para>However, in FAQ section 4.1, you'll find links for additional-language tarballs I've found for FR=French, UK=United Kingdom English, and DE=German. If anyone finds any of the other six, please let me know. (The ES=Spanish archive in a sibling directory of the French one is unfortunately corrupted.) They were as follows: Canadian English (large archive guilgce0.gz or split format guice00.gz - guice03.gz), French (large archive guilgfr0.gz or split format guifr00.gz - guifr03.gz), Australian English (large archive guilgoz0.gz or split format guioz00.gz - guioz05.gz), Canadian French (large archive guilgcf0.gz or split format guicf00.gz - guicf04.gz), Dutch (large archive guilgnl0.gz or split format guinl00.gz - guinl03.gz), and Italian (large archive guilit0.gz or split format guiit00.gz - guiit03.gz).</para>
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<para>However, in FAQ section 4.1, you'll find links for all nine additional-language tarballs. Corel used a rather cryptic file-naming scheme. The standard large-format (single-piece) archives were named GUILGXX0.gz, where "GUI" seems to have indicated that this was for an X11/graphical WP version, "LG" signified large format, and XX was one of the nine language/country codes: FR=French, UK=United Kingdom English, DE=German, ES=Spanish, CE=Canadian Engish, CF=Canadian French, OZ=Australian English, NL=Dutch, and IT=Italian. Alternatively, you could get a set of from four to six archive files for your language/country in split format, named GUIXXNN.gz, e.g., GUINL00.gz through GUINL03.gz for Dutch. Only the large-format archives appear to still be findable on the Internet.</para>
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<para>The language tarballs (which, despite the "gz" extension, are actually .tar.gz files) have a "Runme" installation script, which takes care of all installation details, and localises all aspects of the program. If, on the other hand, you find a source for just the .lex dictionary files, copy them as the root user to WP8's "shlib10" directory. Start xwp with the -admin (or -adm) command-line option. Find the option to add additional languages. Exit xwp. In either case, after installing the language files, start xwp with the "-lang" option to override the US English default, e.g.. "xwp -lang de".</para>
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<para>The main file you'll need from the CLOS boxed-set CD-ROM is a 40 MB one called wp-full_8.1-nn_i386.deb, where "nn" is the package version number, which will depend on the vintage of CLOS you have (and doesn't matter much). On any .deb-based distribution (such as Debian, CLOS, Xandros Desktop, Libranet, Stormix, Progeny, etc.), just do "dpkg -i packagename", as usual. WP probably won't be auto-added to your distribution's menus: The startup binary is "xwp".</para> <para>On other distributions, you can use Joey Hess's "alien" utility to create an approximately equivalent RPM package, a Slackware .tgz package, a Solaris .pkg package, or a Stampede Linux .slp package. Alternatively, you can use the standard "ar" archive utility to pull apart the .deb file and install the pieces manually. The HOWTO documents linked from <ulink url="http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html">http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html</ulink> will probably help, there.</para> <para>CLOS Deluxe Edition also includes three .deb packages of PostScript Type 1 fonts (fonts-16_1.0-5.deb, fonts-69_1.0-4.deb, and fonts-115_1.0-4.deb), which are likewise useful on other Linux distributions. CLOS Standard Edition differs only in omitting the second two fonts packages mentioned. (You may also want the type1inst_0.6.1-6_i386.deb package, if you don't already have the Type 1 Font Installer utility.) On CLOS, they install to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ , making them available to the system generally. You can either convert the .debs as detailed above for WP itself, or grab the font files from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/.</para>
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<para>The main file you'll need from the CLOS boxed-set CD-ROM is a 40 MB one called wp-full_8.1-nn_i386.deb, where "nn" is the package version number, which will depend on the vintage of CLOS you have (and doesn't matter much). On any .deb-based distribution (such as Debian, CLOS, Xandros Desktop, Libranet, Stormix, Progeny, Lindows, etc.), just do "dpkg -i packagename", as usual. WP probably won't be auto-added to your distribution's menus: The startup binary is "xwp".</para> <para>On other distributions, you can use Joey Hess's "alien" utility to create an approximately equivalent RPM package, a Slackware .tgz package, a Solaris .pkg package, or a Stampede Linux .slp package. Alternatively, you can use the standard "ar" archive utility to pull apart the .deb file and install the pieces manually. The HOWTO documents linked from <ulink url="http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html">http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html</ulink> will probably help, there.</para> <para>CLOS Deluxe Edition also includes three .deb packages of PostScript Type 1 fonts (fonts-16_1.0-5.deb, fonts-69_1.0-4.deb, and fonts-115_1.0-4.deb), which are likewise useful on other Linux distributions. CLOS Standard Edition differs only in omitting the second two fonts packages mentioned. (You may also want the type1inst_0.6.1-6_i386.deb package, if you don't already have the Type 1 Font Installer utility.) On CLOS, they install to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ , making them available to the system generally. You can either convert the .debs as detailed above for WP itself, or grab the font files from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/.</para>
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<para>CLOS 1.0 boxed sets' CD-ROM also includes a second .deb package (package name "wp-manual") containing an electronic WP manual. However, that manual is for the non-Linux Unix version, so its omission from CLOS 1.2 is no big loss. (The same manual in PDF format can be retrieved from <ulink url="http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/wp8gui.pdf">http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/wp8gui.pdf</ulink>.) The boxed sets' paperbound WP manual is a lot more useful, anyway.</para>
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<para>Also among the additions in CLOS 1.2 was a WINE (non-Linux-native) port of Corel PhotoPaint 9 (which is also available for free-of-charge download from <ulink url="ftp://ftp2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/">ftp://ftp2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/</ulink>).</para>
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<para>Also among the additions in CLOS 1.2 was a Winelib (non-Linux-native) port of Corel PhotoPaint 9 (which is also available for free-of-charge download from <ulink url="ftp://ftp2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/">ftp://ftp2.corel.com/pub/linux/PhotoPaint9/</ulink>).</para>
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<sect2 id="wp9better"><title>Isn't WP 9 For Linux (in the "WordPerfect Office 2000" suite) better than WP 8.1?</title>
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<para>Few would agree. Its admirers seem to be, well, MS-Windows users, since WP 9 is pretty much the Win32 version running in a winelib environment, with RAM bloat, stability problems, and other glitches (including DOS drive letters in file dialogues!) that are routine on MS-Windows but not Linux.</para>
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<para>Few would agree. Its admirers seem to be, well, MS-Windows users, since WP 9 is pretty much the Win32 version running in a WINE environment, with RAM bloat, stability problems, and other glitches (including DOS drive letters in file dialogues!) that are routine on MS-Windows but not Linux.</para>
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<para>Very likely, WP 9 introduced some feature-set attractions, but needing to run emulation code with performance and stability problems seems a poor tradeoff. I consider 8.1 vastly preferable.</para>
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<para>My best guess: Doing a winelib version allowed Corel to leverage its existing Win32 codebase, write a minimum amount of new code, shorten development time, reduce costs, and keep the effort in-house rather than having to hire SD Corp again.</para>
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<para>My best guess: Doing a Winelib version allowed Corel to leverage its existing Win32 codebase, write a minimum amount of new code, shorten development time, reduce costs, and keep the effort in-house rather than having to hire SD Corp again.</para>
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<sect2 id="wp9maintain"><title>Is there anything I can do to maintain or improve WP9 for Linux?</title>
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<para>I hear that you can substitute an improved version of Corel's fork of the WINE emulation code, which for now is maintained by Michael Torrie, at <ulink url="http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/">http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/</ulink>, with other possibly useful pages at <ulink url="http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/corel-wp9.txt">http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/corel-wp9.txt</ulink> and <ulink url="http://members.chello.at/hrdisk/corelwine.html">http://members.chello.at/hrdisk/corelwine.html</ulink>.</para>
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<para>I can't guarantee the truth of this account, but I've heard claims that Corel deferred submission of its patches to the WINE Project development team so long that they could no longer be merged when they arrived, leading to inadvertant creation of a separate development fork, dubbed "Corelwine". This seems to be the codebase that Torrie maintains, separately from the WINE Project's flagship codebase.</para>
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<listitem><para>Quadraton Systems, Inc. <ulink url="http://www.dr-quad.com/cliqword.htm">CliqWord</ulink>. Character-based (console) office automation software. Listed here only because Chris Browne includes it, as I'm not at all sure it belongs in this category. No import/export facilities whatsoever that I can confirm.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Axene, Inc. <ulink url="http://xibios.free.fr/english/">Xclamation (DTP) and XAllWrite (word processor)</ulink> programs. Motif-based. No document import/export features worth mentioning; no .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>SmartWare Corporation (formerly Angoss Software Corporation) <ulink url="http://www.smartware4.com/">SmartWare</ulink>. Existing codebase is a character-based (console) office suite, currently off the market (July 2002) while being updated with an X11 GUI and improved installer. Strengths include vertical-application support, robustness in multiuser situations, and bundled rapid application development tools. The product will be relaunched when revision work completes.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Gobe Software <ulink url="http://www.gobe.com/">GobeProductive</ulink> suite (announced but not yet shipped for Linux). Produced by the team that did ClarisWorks. Frame-oriented. Light, fast. Full-featured. Supports MS-Word, RTF. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.freeradicalsoftware.com/">FreeRadicalSoftware, Inc.</ulink> (formerly Gobe Software) <ulink url="http://www.gobe.com/">GobeProductive</ulink> suite (announced but not yet shipped for Linux, except as an alpha-test version). Produced by the team that did ClarisWorks. Frame-oriented. Light, fast. Full-featured. Supports MS-Word, RTF. No .wpd support. (FreeRadicalSoftware announced on August 12, 2002 plans to open-source the entire suite under the GNU GPL. The suite will be renamed, at that time.)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Sophist Solutions, Inc. <ulink url="http://www.sophists.com/Led/LedIt/">LedIt</ulink> word processor. Small, fast. GTK+-based. Supports RTF. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<para>The rationale and workflow approach behind LyX are best described on that project's Web site at <ulink url="http://www.lyx.org/about/intro.php3">http://www.lyx.org/about/intro.php3</ulink>, but here's an attempt to summarise:</para>
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<para>LyX has you work on a document in a graphical, close approximation of how it will print, but, unlike in traditional word processors, you don't directly manipulate document appearance, but rather apply (and edit/create) style rulesets (templates), which consistently apply formatting on your behalf -- and change consistently wherever used in the document, when you alter a style's contents. (Rulesets are applied by the LaTeX professional-grade typesetting engine, for which LyX is a graphical front-end. LaTeX is an open-source implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting engine.)</para>
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<para>LyX has you work on a document in a graphical, close approximation of how it will print, but, unlike in traditional word processors, you don't directly manipulate document appearance, but rather apply (and edit/create) style rulesets (templates), which consistently apply formatting on your behalf -- and change consistently wherever used in the document, when you alter a style's contents. (Rulesets are applied by the LaTeX front-end macro package driving the professional-grade teTeX typesetting engine, for all of which LyX is a graphical shell. teTeX is an open-source implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system.)</para>
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<para>As a result, eventual output is always consistent and of true professional appearance (famously so), regardless of the document's complexity. LyX becomes progressively easier to use than ostensibly simpler word processors as you get into more-complex documents (technical documentation, doctoral theses, conference proceedings, movie scripts, articles on mathematics or physics with formulas to edit and present). Many templates for both simple and complex document types are provided, all traditional word-processing features are also present, and so is extremely thorough on-line help.</para>
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