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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. What is WordPerfect</A></H2>
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<P>WordPerfect is a popular, fully-featured commercial
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word processor program that is available for multiple platforms
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including Linux. It was originally
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written and sold by WordPerfect Corporation, subsequently
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purchased by Novell, then purchased about a year or so ago by
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Corel Corporation (Ottawa, Ontario, CA). Corel has outsourced the
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development of WordPerfect for UNIX (including Linux) to SDC Corporation,
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a corporation including former WordPerfect developers, and specializing
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in development for UNIX and X windows.
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<P>Until the release of Microsoft Word, WordPerfect was the most popular
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word processor for personal computers
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(it still claims to be by volume of product shipped, some reports
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indicate that more copies were sold than Microsoft Word during recent
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months). WordPerfect was originally written for DOS and later ported to the
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UNIX and Windows environments. Initial versions of WordPerfect for
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Windows were very late to market and tended to crash a lot, hence opening
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the floodGATES for Microsoft Word. WordPerfect is still a better word processor
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than Word for large documents or documents that must be moved between
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Mac, UNIX, and Microsoft platforms.
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<P>WordPerfect provides a WYSWYG environment for editing text documents. One
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of the best features is the ability to check your spelling as you type.
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Included are grammar checker, spelling checker, graphics import and export,
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and the ability to edit HTML documents. Documents created by WordPerfect
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on one platform may be read, edited, and printed on other platforms (I
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have generated a lot of documents using WP 6.0 (Caldera's release)
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and distributed them to
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Windows 95 users using WP 7.0 or 8.0).
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<P>WordPerfect runs on the following platforms (release or beta versions):
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<UL>
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<LI>Linux 1.2.13 (WordPerfect 6.0 for Linux, sold by Caldera)</LI>
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<LI>Linux 2.0.X (WordPerfect 6.0 and WordPerfect 7.0)</LI>
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<LI>Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT </LI>
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<LI>Macintosh</LI>
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<LI>HP-UX 10.01</LI>
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<LI>IBM AIX 4.1.4</LI>
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<LI>SCO OpenServer 5.0.0</LI>
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<LI>Sun SPARC Solaris 2.5</LI>
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<LI>SUN SPARC SunOS 4.1.x</LI>
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<LI>SUN X86 Solaris 2.5.1</LI>
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<LI>Digital UNIX 3.2 G Alpha</LI>
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<LI>SCO 3.2.4.2</LI>
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</UL>
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