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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9">
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<TITLE>WordPerfect Mini-howto: WordPerfect 6.0 (Caldera)</TITLE>
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<LINK HREF="WordPerfect-5.html" REL=next>
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<LINK HREF="WordPerfect-3.html" REL=previous>
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<LINK HREF="WordPerfect.html#toc4" REL=contents>
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<A HREF="WordPerfect-5.html">Next</A>
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<H2><A NAME="s4">4. WordPerfect 6.0 (Caldera)</A></H2>
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<P>Caldera sells both a WordPerfect and Motif Bundle ($130 US)
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and the Caldera Internet Office Suite ($219 US). Both include
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WordPerfect 6.0 for Linux.
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<P>Overall, WP 6.0 has been good to me. I have generated 20-30 large
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documents and numerous small ones, probably 1000+ pages if I printed
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them all out. The only problem that I have is that I use WP Times
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font under Linux and it is not compatible with the WP True Type Times
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font under Windows.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Impressions of 6.0</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The author has been using WordPerfect for Linux on Caldera
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Network Desktop (CND) for the past year. The system is a
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P6/200, 64M RAM, SCSI, CND 1.0 with RiskyHack patches to
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the Linux 2.0.30 kernel, updated RPM, and many, many RPMS from
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Redhat and Caldera's WWW sites.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 Getting WordPerfect 6.0</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Visit Caldera's WWW site at
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<A HREF="http://www.caldera.com">http://www.caldera.com</A><P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 Installation of 6.0</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Installation was easy. I just followed the directions provided....
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<P>I did have to add <B>wp</B> to my fvwm menu (I am using FVWM95
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on CND 1.0 with lots of patches) and to looking glass's menus.
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<P>My platform is a P6/200, 64M RAM, Caldera CND 1.0, RiskyHacks to libc 5.4.4,
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kernel 2.0.30 (Joliet and FAT32 patches), dual SCSI, CD-R, etc.
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WP uses 74 MB of disk space.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.4">4.4 Bugs in 6.0</A>
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</H2>
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<UL>
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<LI>Export to HTML has several bugs with complex documents requiring some
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reformatting.</LI>
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<LI>Occasional crashes (very rare).</LI>
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<LI>Occasionally WP loops where it uses all memory and runs out of swap space,
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then crashes.</LI>
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<LI>Some fonts are different between Windows and UNIX versions.</LI>
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<LI>It has been reported to me that some WP macros for UNIX versions
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are different than those for Windows versions.</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>
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<P>
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