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<address><email>rick@linuxmafia.com</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<pubdate>1.4.2, 2003-01-27</pubdate>
<pubdate>1.4.4, 2003-02-26</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2002-2003</year>
@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</para>
<para>Old-timers may recall that WordPerfect originally emerged from Software Development Corporation (SD Corp) of Orem, Utah, which later renamed itself to WordPerfect Corporation. That firm eventually sold WordPerfect's codebase to Novell, Inc., which then sold it to Corel Corporation Limited of Ottawa, Canada. Corel then hired the first firm (renamed back to SD Corp) to port WP versions 6, 7, 8.0, and 8.1 to both Linux and several proprietary Unix platforms.</para>
<para>The latest and seemingly final WP version for Linux was v. 9, better known as WordPerfect Office 2000 (which was technically WordPerfect joined at the hip to several other Corel programs -- Quattro Pro, Paradox, Corel Presentations, Corel Central), was produced by Corel Corporation Limited, alone.</para>
<para>The latest and seemingly final WP version for Linux was v. 9, better known as WordPerfect Office 2000 (which was technically WordPerfect joined at the hip to several other Corel programs -- Quattro Pro, Paradox, Corel Presentations, Corel Central), was produced by Corel Corporation Limited, alone. (Paradox was included only in the Deluxe Edition.)</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</para>
<para>WP 8.0 editions for Linux were mostly similar: The Server Edition and Personal Edition boxed-set versions were as detailed for prior versions. However, Corel also introduced a WP 8.0 Download Personal Edition, which could be downloaded free of charge as a gzipped tar archive, and was also redistributed for the cost of media on CD-ROMs, in either tar.gz or RPM format. In late 2001, Corel disabled download of WP 8.0 DPE from its ftp site, but it remains available elsewhere.</para>
<para>WP 8.0 DPE for Linux differed from the boxed-set versions in lacking the other versions' drawing/charting module, their module to create custom dictionaries and hyphenation databases, their equation editor, their network support, their print-queue manager, their prepaid technical support, their sample documents/templates/textures/clipart/photos, their font-installer module, most of their fonts, their multilanguage support, and their documentation. (The program could call up an HTML manual from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wpmanual</ulink>, now removed.) Also, after 90 days, it refuses to run until you enter a registration key, available free of charge (for now) on a page linked from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/">http://linux.corel.com/</ulink> (or use one of the ones people have posted in public). Also, the licence permitted only personal, non-commercial use. Last, it was compiled dynamically linked against some now-obsolete libraries, which must thus be furnished for its benefit (prior to installation).</para>
<para>WP 8.0 DPE for Linux differed from the boxed-set versions in lacking the other versions' drawing/charting module, their module to create custom dictionaries and hyphenation databases, their equation editor, their network support, their print-queue manager, their prepaid technical support, their sample documents/templates/textures/clipart/photos, their font-installer module, most of their fonts, their multilanguage support, and their documentation. (The program could call up an HTML manual from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wpmanual</ulink>, now removed, and that entire Internet server was finally decommissioned on Feb. 26, 2003.) Also, after 90 days, it refuses to run until you enter a registration key, available free of charge (for now) on <ulink url="http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html">http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html</ulink> (or use one of the ones people have posted in public). Also, the licence permitted only personal, non-commercial use. Last, it was compiled dynamically linked against some now-obsolete libraries, which must thus be furnished for its benefit (prior to installation).</para>
<para>Balanced against these drawbacks is supplies of 8.0 DPE being effectively inexhaustible -- despite legal questions.</para>
@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</para>
<para>Good question. By the time the problem cropped up, Corel had discontinued all involvement in Linux. Just before that, Microsoft Corporation made a major investment in Corel, preventing the latter firm's collapse. It's possible that lack of Linux-competent staffing was an issue, that Corel didn't wish to displease its investor, that the firm perceived inexpensive Linux versions to be impairing sales of its US $500 versions for other Unixes (especially given increasingly common support for Linux-native binaries on those Unixes), or that corporate inertia after liquidating the entire Linux division accounted for this lapse.</para>
<para>Corel's only comment (November 5, 2001) was "The corporation is not prepared to make any comment", and to post a comment on <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8">http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8</ulink>, unchanged since late 2001, that "Corel is currently working with the filter manufacturer to resolve this issue."</para>
<para>Corel's only comment (November 5, 2001) was "The corporation is not prepared to make any comment", and to post a comment on <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8">http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8</ulink>, unchanged since late 2001, that "Corel is currently working with the filter manufacturer to resolve this issue." (That claim was still present when Corel took down the linux.corel.com machine on Feb. 26, 2003.)</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kab"><title>How do I make WP for Linux's integration with KDE Address Book ("kab") work with KDE2/KDE3?</title>
@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm">ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm</ulink> (includes all localisation files except French),</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordperfect8/">ftp://ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordperfect8/</ulink> (includes all localisation files) ,</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/linux/nonfree/">http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/linux/nonfree/</ulink> ,</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/Linux/print/">http://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/Linux/print/</ulink> ,</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.ufscar.br/pub/linux/editortexto/">ftp://ftp.ufscar.br/pub/linux/editortexto/</ulink> ,</para></listitem>
@ -229,22 +230,19 @@ is unfortunately corrupted.)</para>
<para>Your first challenge may be to unpack it. You'll have no problem with the (rare) RPM archive, but the gzipped tarballs (either a single-piece archive named GUILG00.gz, 23 MB, or seven smaller archives named GUILG00.gz through GUILG06.gz) will appear a little puzzling: Despite having a .gz extension (only), they are in fact gzipped tarballs. Further, they un-tar right into the current directory, rather than creating a container directory. Corel grotesquely botched the packaging. However, note that some sites will have repacked the contents (variously), often out of a desire to correct Corel's error. Therefore, when in doubt, use the Linux "file" utility to determine what you're working with.</para>
<para>After unpacking (and reading the Readme file), you'll have to furnish the dynamic libraries WP 8.x requires: ld-linux.so.1.9.5, libc5 (any version from 5.3.12 through 5.4.46) with matching libm.so.5.*, and a set of X11 backwards-compatibility libraries compiled for libc5 X11 clients (libXt.so.6, libX11.so.6, libXpm.so.4, libSM.so.6, and libICE.so.6). These will probably be optional packages for your distribution, not installed by default. Only then should you run "sh Runme", as directed by the Readme. Caveat: If some of the libs are not present, you may think installation has succeeded, but will then encounter any of a variety of strange symptoms. Therefore, make certain, as follows:</para>
<para>After unpacking (and reading the Readme file), you'll have to furnish the dynamic libraries WP 8.0 requires: ld-linux.so.1.9.5, libc5 (any version from 5.3.12 through 5.4.46) with matching libm.so.5.*, and a set of X11 backwards-compatibility libraries compiled for libc5 X11 clients (libXt.so.6, libX11.so.6, libXpm.so.4, libSM.so.6, and libICE.so.6). These will probably be optional packages for your distribution, not installed by default. Only then should you run "sh Runme", as directed by the Readme. Caveat: If some of the libs are not present, you may think installation has succeeded, but will then encounter any of a variety of strange symptoms. Therefore, make certain, as follows:</para>
<para>In an X11 terminal, do "su -" to become the root user temporarily. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libc.so.5", which must show some libc version from 5.3.12 through 5.4.46. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libm.so.5". This must show a libm version of 5*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libXt.so.6", which must show some libXt version of 6.0*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libX11.so.6", which must show some libX11 version of 6.1*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libXpm.so.4", which must show some libXpm version of 4.11*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libSM.so.6", which must show some libSM.so.6.0*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libICE.so.6", which must show some libICE.so.6.3*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep ld-linux.so.1". This must return a ld-linux version of 1.*. Type "ldconfig -v | grep libsafe", which ideally will show null results. (If not, see section "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?") You've now confirmed that necessary libraries are installed and known to the dynamic loader. (Unfortunately, the five X11 libraries found by the above process might be compiled for more-modern glibc2 AKA libc6 clients, not libc5 ones -- and one set cannot substitute for the other. A good sign is if you get two lines of return values for each of the five ldconfig lines: That shows that you have both glibc and libc5 versions of the X11 libs installed.)</para>
<para>If you've tried to satisfy WP 8.x's libs requirements but still aren't quite succeeding (which is becoming common as distributions eliminate legacy libc5 and ld.so libraries from their default installations and sometimes from the distributions entirely), as a last resort you can unpack <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/vectorlinux/packages/wordperfect8/wp8-libs.tgz">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/vectorlinux/packages/wordperfect8/wp8-libs.tgz</ulink>, a complete gzipped tar archive of all required libraries plus lines to add to /etc/ld.so.conf. (It should be unpacked into an empty directory, as it provides no container directory.) As the root user, carefully put the libraries in the indicated directories, and then adjust /etc/ld.so.conf as indicated and re-run /sbin/ldconfig to rebuild the library cache. Be aware that these additions are outside your distribution's package regime (if any), and, like any manual change to key system internals, should be done with caution.</para>
<para>If you've tried to satisfy WP 8.0's libs requirements but still aren't quite succeeding (which is becoming common as distributions eliminate legacy libc5 and ld.so libraries from their default installations and sometimes from the distributions entirely), as a last resort you can unpack <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/vectorlinux/packages/wordperfect8/wp8-libs.tgz">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/vectorlinux/packages/wordperfect8/wp8-libs.tgz</ulink>, a complete gzipped tar archive of all required libraries plus lines to add to /etc/ld.so.conf. (It should be unpacked into an empty directory, as it provides no container directory.) As the root user, carefully put the libraries in the indicated directories, and then adjust /etc/ld.so.conf as indicated and re-run /sbin/ldconfig to rebuild the library cache. Be aware that these additions are outside your distribution's package regime (if any), and, like any manual change to key system internals, should be done with caution.</para>
<para>Now, as your last action with root-user authority, do "mkdir /opt/wp8" followed by "chown yourself /opt/wp8", where yourself is your regular non-root login. Last, type "exit" (or Ctrl-D) to exit the root-user shell and revert to your regular non-root login. (Root authority should never be used for software installer routines if there's another way, as there is here.) You can now proceed with invoking the WP 8.0 DPE installation script ("sh Runme"). You'll almost certainly be warned that your Linux kernel is "not certified". (This is OK.) When prompted for an installation directory, specify /opt/wp8. On the "Existing Application" screen, you don't need to provide "the pathname of an existing application". On the Select WordPerfect Printer Drivers screen, you should select all printer types you expect to want to print to, but will be able to revisit this selection later. (See section "How do I get printing to work?".) </para>
<para>Afterwards, you'll want to apply Valentijn Sessink's wrapper to fix the "Filtrix" MS-Word import/export module, available at <ulink url="http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/">http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/</ulink>. You might also want to put a three-line shell script in /usr/local/bin to start xwp by cd'ing to /opt/wp8/wpbin and then running ./xwp. Otherwise, it'll be necessary to type "/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp" to start the program.</para>
<para>Last, in lieu of the on-line manual Corel has removed from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual</ulink>, you'll want to bookmark some sites as a partial substitute:</para>
<para>Last, in lieu of the on-line manual Corel has removed from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual</ulink> (and, in fact, decommissioned that entire site on Feb. 26, 2003), you'll want to bookmark some sites as a partial substitute:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8">http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm">http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/html/9201.htm">http://linux.corel.com/support/html/9201.htm</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.rodsbooks.com/wpfonts/">http://www.rodsbooks.com/wpfonts/</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/">http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://control-escape.com/wp8.html">http://control-escape.com/wp8.html</ulink></para></listitem>
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<sect2 id="redistribute"><title>Given that Corel has ceased publishing it, is redistribution of WP 8.0 DPE for Linux still lawful?</title>
<para>That question really divides into two cases, distributors who secured a specific grant of redistribution rights from Corel and those who didn't. If you examine WP 8.0 DPE copies downloaded from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm">http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm</ulink> and elsewhere (including CD-ROM WP 8 copies, boxed-set versions of SuSE Linux through 6.1, etc.), you'll notice its licence omits the right to redistribute, and says the recipient's licence is non-transferrable. Copyright law reserves distribution rights to a work's copyright owner, by default. So, strictly speaking, redistributing WP 8.0 DPE without explicit permission violates Corel's copyright.</para>
<para>That question really divides into two cases, distributors who secured a specific grant of redistribution rights from Corel and those who didn't. If you examine WP 8.0 DPE copies downloaded from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm">http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm</ulink> (that site having been decommissioned as of Feb. 26, 2003) and elsewhere (including CD-ROM WP 8 copies, boxed-set versions of SuSE Linux through 6.1, etc.), you'll notice its licence omits the right to redistribute, and says the recipient's licence is non-transferrable. Copyright law reserves distribution rights to a work's copyright owner, by default. So, strictly speaking, redistributing WP 8.0 DPE without explicit permission violates Corel's copyright.</para>
<para>(I am not a lawyer. This FAQ is not legal advice.)</para>
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<sect2 id="uplang8"><title>How do I add additional language files (other than US English) to WP 8.0 DPE?</title>
<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>
<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, and decommissioned that entire site on Feb. 26, 2003.</para>
<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>
@ -305,7 +303,7 @@ is unfortunately corrupted.)</para>
<para>One source for .lex files is the CD bundled with the book "WordPerfect for Linux Bible", discussed in section 7.1. But, of course, if you have the WP 8.0 PE software from that book, you don't really need WP 8.0 DPE. (I don't know if it's lawful to redistribute the book's .lex files. That might depend on licensing.)</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="regkeys"><title>Where will we get new WP 8.0 registration keys, if/when Corel stops offering them at the page linked from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/">http://linux.corel.com/</ulink>?</title>
<sect2 id="regkeys"><title>Where will we get new WP 8.0 registration keys, if/when Corel stops offering them at the page linked from <ulink url="http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html">http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html</ulink>?</title>
<para>Fortunately, Corel didn't prohibit recipients from publishing their registration keys, and at least three users have done so. As long as Corel continues to offer keys (at <ulink url="http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html">http://venus.corel.com/nasapps/wp8linuxreg/register.html</ulink>), it seems fair to give them the marketing information they gain thereby. If that facility is ever discontinued, use "LW8XW-bA8L9bjZf9", "LW8XW-NfDyZN1HfZ", or "LW8XW-nEqIHnZrcH".</para>
</sect2>
@ -318,7 +316,7 @@ is unfortunately corrupted.)</para>
<para>That version is available only inside boxed sets of CLOS Deluxe Edition and CLOS Standard Edition (the latter having fewer bundled fonts), versions 1.0 and 1.2. Nowhere else. There was never a "download edition", and Corel's licence terms strictly forbid redistribution.</para>
<para>CLOS Deluxe Edition v. 1.2 aka "Second Edition" is still available for US $85 at <ulink url="http://www.cheapbytes.com/">http://www.cheapbytes.com/</ulink> , and can frequently be found on eBay. Cassam Computers, <ulink url="http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~pdj/Linux.html">http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~pdj/Linux.html</ulink>, has Deluxe Edition for CAN $100 and Standard Edition for CAN $40. EMS Professional Software and Consulting, <ulink url="http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/misc-c.htm">http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/misc-c.htm</ulink>, has xDeluxe Edition for US $100.</para>
<para>CLOS Deluxe Edition v. 1.2 aka "Second Edition" is still available for US $85 at <ulink url="http://www.cheapbytes.com/">http://www.cheapbytes.com/</ulink> , and can frequently be found on eBay. Cassam Computers, <ulink url="http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~pdj/Linux.html">http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~pdj/Linux.html</ulink>, has Deluxe Edition for CAN $100 and Standard Edition for CAN $40. EMS Professional Software and Consulting, <ulink url="http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/misc-c.htm">http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/misc-c.htm</ulink>, has Deluxe Edition for US $100.</para>
<para>Please note that downloading an ISO9660 (CD-ROM) image of CLOS absolutely does not do the trick: That will be CLOS Download Edition, which has no version of WP for Linux at all. You need CLOS Deluxe or Standard Edition, the two boxed sets -- not CLOS Download Edition.</para>
</sect2>
@ -404,6 +402,13 @@ port?</title>
<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>
<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>
<para>There are also numerous updates to WP9 / WP Office 2000 inside <ulink url="ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Office2000/updates/">ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Office2000/updates/</ulink> and <ulink url="ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Graphics9/updates/">ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Graphics9/updates/</ulink>. Among those updates, the revised WP Office 2000 installer available there is essential for most modern Linux distributions to make the Fontastic font server install correctly. Note that you need at least one printer configured before installation.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="getwp9"><title>Where can I find a copy of WP9 / WP Office 2000 for Linux?</title>
<para>It's available for US $49 from Surplus Computers of Santa Clara, California at <ulink url="http://www.surpluscomputers.com/">http://www.surpluscomputers.com/</ulink>, and is frequently offered on eBay.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -422,7 +427,7 @@ Linux?</title>
<sect2 id="onlinedocs"><title> WP 8.x's access to on-line docs doesn't work any more, saying "document not found (404 error)". Where did they go?</title>
<para>At the same time Corel removed WP 8.0 DPE from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm">http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm</ulink>, it also removed the on-line HTML-format manual (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual</ulink>), knowledgebase (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wpkb">http://linux.corel.com/wpkb</ulink>), and support page (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wpsupport">http://linux.corel.com/wpsupport</ulink>) that all WP 8.x for Linux programs referenced via hyperlink. (Corel has substitute knowledgebase and support pages, but, if anyone made a copy of the HTML manual, please let me know.) Corel's remaining on-line documentation is at <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8">http://linux.corel.com/support/docs.htm#wp8</ulink> and <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm">http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_faq.htm</ulink>.</para>
<para>At the same time Corel removed WP 8.0 DPE from <ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm">http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_downloadlinks.htm</ulink>, it also removed the on-line HTML-format manual (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual">http://linux.corel.com/wp8manual</ulink>), knowledgebase (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wpkb">http://linux.corel.com/wpkb</ulink>), and support page (<ulink url="http://linux.corel.com/wpsupport">http://linux.corel.com/wpsupport</ulink>) that all WP 8.x for Linux programs referenced via hyperlink. Finally, on Feb. 26, 2003, Corel decommissioned that entire site, ending access to the remaining knowledgebase, FAQ, and support pages. (However, those can be still browsed, courtesy of the Internet Archive, at <ulink url="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://linux.corel.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://linux.corel.com/</ulink>.)</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -466,6 +471,7 @@ Linux?</title>
<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>
<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>
<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 (January 2003), the character-based v. 2.65B of SmartWare Plus is back on the market, while a Linux port of the new, graphical SmartWare4 codebase with improved installer is being prepared. Strengths include vertical-application support, robustness in multiuser situations, and bundled rapid application development tools.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ability Plus Software, Ltd.'s <ulink url="http://www.ability.com/linux/">Ability Linux</ulink>, a Linux port of the Win32 Ability suite (Photopaint, Spreadsheet, Write and Database), running as what is claimed to be native-Linux code with WINE library support. Currently available free of charge as alpha-release code. Unique internal design: interpreted code using a runtime engine/library called MFC. MFC is what has been recoded run as a Linux application with WINE library calls. Supports .wpd, RTF, HTML, MS doc, AmiPro.</para></listitem>
<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 shipped for Linux, except as a pre-alpha-test version, still available at <ulink url="http://www.gobe.com/downloads/gobe_linux_x86_install.tgz">http://www.gobe.com/downloads/gobe_linux_x86_install.tgz</ulink>). Produced by the team that did ClarisWorks/AppleWorks. 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, but then in December 2002 had to <ulink url="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2308">announce</ulink> that sufficient funds -- about US $100k -- couldn't be raised to licence the source code.) Discontinued.</para></listitem>
<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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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.eeyore-mule.demon.co.uk/">Maxwell</ulink> word processor. Motif-based (not yet LessTif). Supports RTF. No .wpd support. Inactive project since 1998, though one of the three past maintainers speaks of an intention to make one final release merging various fixes and transitioning from Maxwell's native binary data format to RTF.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.oksid.ch/flwriter/">FLWriter</ulink> (Fast Light Writer). XHTML file format with UTF-8 encoding, excellent multilanguage support, spelling checker. Exports RTF 1.5. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/">Ted</ulink>. Simple word processor similar in spirit to MS-Windows's WordPad. RTF is native format. Motif/LessTif-based. Supports PDF, PostScript. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.hungry.com/products/gwp/">GWP</ulink> (GNOME Word Processor). GTK+/GNOME-based editor formerly known as XWord, when it was Hungry Programmers' Motif/LessTif-based project. Intended for XML-based structured documents, and uses an XML-based file format. Project appears to be neglected in favour of AbiWord, and may be effectively unmaintained. Light, somewhat feature-shy. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CMU <ulink url="http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/">Andrew User Interface System</ulink> (auis) package's EZ editor mode. Uses a well-thought-out system of ASCII + style/template markup. Supports RTF. No .wpd support. Development seems to have ceased as of 1997 (arguably because it meets its design goals).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.lyx.org/">LyX</ulink> (slick graphical front-end to LaTeX). Implements ASCII + TeX markup in a quasi-WYSIWYG graphical environment. You write structured documents (discussed below), but the process is made graphical and fairly easy. Produces reliable, high-quality output. Excellent built-in help. Supports LinuxDoc, DocBook, LaTeX, PostScript, DVI, ASCII. XForms or Qt-based, with GTK+ integration pending. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<sect2 id="alternativeswin32"><title>What alternatives to WP exist involving Win32 apps on Linux?</title>
<para>Such alternatives are outside the scope of this document, but include (1) the numerous ways of running Win32 applications on Linux in some sort of emulation environment, such as VMware, Inc.'s <ulink url="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware</ulink> (simulation in a virtual environment of a particular theoretical x86 box's hardware, which then can boot various OSes within the emulated environment), NeTraverse's <ulink url="http://www.netraverse.com/">Win4Lin</ulink> (an MS-Windows 9x/ME emulation environment for x86 Linux), <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</ulink> (a set of libs implementing the Win32 application interface), CodeWeavers's <ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/">Crossover Office</ulink> (the WINE libs with some extra support for MS Office applications), TransGaming Technologies, Inc.'s <ulink url="http://www.transgaming.com/">WineX</ulink> (another WINE extension, with enhanced DirectX support, primarily for 3D games), The Bochs Project's <ulink url="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/">Bochs</ulink> (software environment for any CPU family emulating an entire x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and BIOS), and Drew Northup's <ulink url="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86/">Plex86</ulink> (software environment emulating on x86 a virtual x86 session), and (2) the numerous ways of remotely running Win32 applications from a graphical Linux desktop, such as RealVNC Limited's <ulink url="http://www.realvnc.com/">VNC Server</ulink>, Constantin Kaplinsky's <ulink url="http://www.tightvnc.com/">TightVNC</ulink>, Tridia Corporation's <ulink url="http://www.tridiavnc.com/">TridiaVNC</ulink>, and Matt Chapman's <ulink url="http://www.rdesktop.org/">rdesktop</ulink>. I maintain a <ulink url="http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/vnc-and-alternatives">listing</ulink> of options in the latter category.</para>
<para>Such alternatives are outside the scope of this document, but include (1) the numerous ways of running Win32 applications on Linux in some sort of emulation environment, such as VMware, Inc.'s <ulink url="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware</ulink> (simulation in a virtual environment of a particular theoretical x86 box's hardware, which then can boot various OSes including Win9x/ME/NT/2k/XP within the emulated environment, necessitating a copy of that OS, as well), NeTraverse's <ulink url="http://www.netraverse.com/">Win4Lin</ulink> (an MS-Windows 9x/ME emulation environment for x86 Linux, requiring a copy of MS-Windows 9x/ME to work), <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</ulink> (an LGPLed library and program loader implementing on x86 Unixes the Win32 and Win16 application interfaces), <ulink url="http://rewind.sourceforge.net/">ReWind</ulink> (an MIT/X11-licensed fork of an earlier WINE release), CodeWeavers's <ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/">Crossover Office</ulink> (WINE with some extra support for MS Office applications), CodeWeavers's <ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/">Wine Preview</ulink> (an MIT/X11-licensed variant of an earlier WINE release tweaked for stability, and with an improved installer), CodeWeavers's <ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/">Crossover Plugin</ulink> (WINE variant for x86 Linux to support Web browser plugins such as QuickTime), TransGaming Technologies, Inc.'s <ulink url="http://www.transgaming.com/">WineX</ulink> (another WINE extension for x86 Linux, with enhanced DirectX support, primarily for 3D games), the Bochs Project's <ulink url="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/">Bochs</ulink> (software environment for any CPU family emulating an entire x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and BIOS), and Drew Northup's <ulink url="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86/">Plex86</ulink> (software environment emulating on x86 a virtual x86 session), and (2) the numerous ways of remotely running Win32 applications from a graphical Linux desktop, such as RealVNC Limited's <ulink url="http://www.realvnc.com/">VNC Server</ulink>, Constantin Kaplinsky's <ulink url="http://www.tightvnc.com/">TightVNC</ulink>, Tridia Corporation's <ulink url="http://www.tridiavnc.com/">TridiaVNC</ulink>, and Matt Chapman's <ulink url="http://www.rdesktop.org/">rdesktop</ulink>. I maintain a <ulink url="http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/vnc-and-alternatives">listing</ulink> of options in the latter category.</para>
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