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<pubdate>1.4.15, 2003-11-18</pubdate>
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<pubdate>1.4.16, 2003-12-18</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2002-2003</year>
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<para>Alternatively and at the recipient's option, this work may be used freely under the <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0</ulink> licence.</para>
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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 1.1 or Star Office 7.0 takes 54 MB to launch. AbiWord 2.10 uses only 14 MB, and KWord 1.2.94 32 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>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 1.1 or Star Office 7.0 takes 54 MB to launch. AbiWord 2.01 uses only 15 MB, and KWord 1.2.94 32 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, Anyware Office, and wp2latex also qualify.)</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 hear that you can substitute an improved version of Corel's fork of the WINE emulation code ("Corelwine"), 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 inadvertent 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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<para>Moreover, Corelwine was built to be dependent on Bitstream, Inc.'s proprietary FontTastic font server, a feature unlikely to be included in the WINE Project code of the day, and now precluded by WINE licensing.</para>
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<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>
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<para>Open Source (see also Chris Browne's <ulink url="http://cbbrowne.com/info/wp.html">http://cbbrowne.com/info/wp.html</ulink>):</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</ulink> very comprehensive office suite's Writer word processor (derived from Star Office). GTK+-based. <ulink url="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7120">Frame-based</ulink>. Large; slow-loading, but then performs OK. Supports MS-Word, StarWriter, RTF, and a few other formats. (The v. 1.1 beta adds PDF, DocBook, Macromedia Flash, flat XML, XHTML, and some PDA Office formats.) Excellent MS doc compatibility. No integrated .wpd support, yet, but there's a project to develop a filter at <ulink url="http://wp.openoffice.org/">http://wp.openoffice.org/</ulink>, and, more immediately useful, a third-party filter and .wpd-handling library at <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</ulink> very comprehensive office suite's Writer word processor (derived from Star Office). GTK+-based. <ulink url="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7120">Frame-oriented</ulink>. Large; slow-loading, but then performs OK. Supports MS-Word, StarWriter, RTF, and a few other formats. (The v. 1.1 beta adds PDF, DocBook, Macromedia Flash, flat XML, XHTML, and some PDA Office formats.) Excellent MS doc compatibility. No integrated .wpd support, yet, but there's a project to develop a filter at <ulink url="http://wp.openoffice.org/">http://wp.openoffice.org/</ulink>, and, more immediately useful, a third-party filter and .wpd-handling library at <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. <ulink url="http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/">SOT Office</ulink> suite's SOT Office Writer. Based on OpenOffice.org, adding some software enhancements (added spelling checker and hyphenation dictionaries, templates, optional commercial support, enhanced on-line help and PDF manual). Available in a boxed set with printed docs. As an alternative, there is also a proprietary SOT Office bundle that includes software updates. All other remarks about OpenOffice.org also apply here.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>SourceGear Corporation <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/">AbiWord</ulink>. GTK+-based. Table support is only now being added. Fast, light, stable. Supports MS-Word, Anyware Words/Applix Words, AbiWord, RTF, WordPerfect .wpd, Microsoft Write, DocBook, XHTML, and many other formats. Excellent MS doc compatibility. There's an alternate third-party .wpd filter and library available for AbiWord at <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>KDE KOffice suite's <ulink url="http://koffice.kde.org/kword/">KWord</ulink> word processor. Frame-oriented. Qt-based. Supports MS-Word, Anyware Words/Applix Words, AbiWord formats. Medium-good MS doc compatibility. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>SourceGear Corporation <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/">AbiWord</ulink>. GTK+-based. Table support is only now being added. Fast, light, stable. Supports MS-Word, Anyware Words/Applix Words, AbiWord, RTF, WordPerfect .wpd, Microsoft Write, DocBook, XHTML, and many other formats. Excellent MS doc compatibility. With v. 2.x and up, AbiWord uses the promising <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">libwpd</ulink> .wpd import/export filter, though you may have to install an abiword-plugins package.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>KDE KOffice suite's <ulink url="http://koffice.kde.org/kword/">KWord</ulink> word processor. Frame-oriented. Qt-based. Supports MS-Word, Anyware Words/Applix Words, AbiWord formats. Medium-good MS doc compatibility. Beta-level text-only .wpd support in recent (1.2.x) versions.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>SIAG Office suite's <ulink url="http://siag.nu/pw/">Pathetic Writer</ulink> word processor. Supports RTF. Supports MS-Word via WVware. Athena-based. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxwellwp">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>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.oksid.ch/flwriter/">FLWriter</ulink> (Fast Light Writer). XHTML file format with UTF-8 encoding, excellent multi-language support, spelling checker. Exports RTF 1.5. No .wpd support.</para></listitem>
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<para>This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</para>
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<para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</para>
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<para>Alternatively and at the recipient's option, this work may be used freely under the <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0</ulink> licence.</para>
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<CiteTitle>Updated: Nov 2003</CiteTitle>.
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<CiteTitle>Updated: Dec 2003</CiteTitle>.
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A guide to founding, maintaining, and growing a Linux User Group. </Para>
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<CiteTitle>Updated: Nov 2003</CiteTitle>.
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<CiteTitle>Updated: Dec 2003</CiteTitle>.
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A guide to founding, maintaining, and growing a Linux User Group. </Para>
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<revnumber>2.11</revnumber>
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<date>2003-12-24</date>
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<authorinitials>dq</authorinitials>
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<revremark>Updated to say that Xnews event sounds work properly, and updated with instructions to get event sounds to work properly under KDE.</revremark>
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<revnumber>2.1</revnumber>
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One of the problems with Linux today is the lack of a good newsreader, where
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One of the problems with Linux today is the lack of newsreader software,
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The unzip program is required if the reader wants to install the software
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The unzip program is required if the reader wants to install Xnews or Dialog
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<title>Linux User Group HOWTO
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<date>v1.7.3, 2003-11-01
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The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and
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