Wordperfect Office 2000

[George Toft]

My only objection to ApplixWare is that it is no longer supported
(saw that in a PR story a few months ago).  I use StarOffice quite
a bit, and my only complaint was its lack of Advanced Statistics, 
which I have needed only once in my life.  The Bonus: it is supported
by Sun.

George


Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> Have you tried Applixware?  I'm debating on if I want to upgrade to 5.0, but so
> far I've been happy with the versions that I do have.  It works in windows and
> *nix without things like wine (they have versions for both types of OS).
> 
> OK, well they did for 4.41, but it looks like they stopped developing for the
> windows platform, but with programs like Exceed you can run Applixware remotely
> on a windows machine so you would have the same office suite as on linux.
> 
> One of the things I liked about it was a quote from the applixware mailing
> list.  A guy was running it on a P200 with (I think) 64MB RAM running linux and
> was serving the office suite to more than a dozen systems concurrently and the
> system was only using about 20 - 30% of the CPU.  Try doing that with M$ Office.
> 
> Only $39.99 for it at tiger direct.  Beats the $150 you paid for Corel.
> 
> > OK, I'm a little disappointed:
> >
> > I picked up a copy of Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux today.  I
> > haven't found a free wordprocessor yet that I like, so I decided to give a
> > commercial product a try.  So far, I'm not impressed.  When I pay about $150
> > for an application, I assume that it will be written for my platform.  Not
> > so with Wordperfect Office.  Typing "wordperfect" at the prompt invokes a
> > wrapper script that calls WINE with the program "wpwin9.exe."  That's right,
> > I've just been sold the Windows version of Wordperfect Office, with the
> > addition of a hacked copy of WINE that allows it to (almost) run on my
> > Linux laptop.
> >
> > The installation began smoothly enough.  The setup script detected my Debian
> > system and used dpkg to install the application components.  At the end of
> > the install, I type "wordperfect," only to be answered with a segmentation
> > fault.  After digging through the Wordperfect directories, I find an
> > undocumented script, "setupWPO2000," which manages to fix things.  Granted,
> > running a script isn't exactly painful, but it would be nice if their fancy
> > User Guide mentioned it.  So now it actually starts, but it's slow, ugly,
> > and inserts tildes into my document names (like MS-DOS does with Win95
> > filenames).  Last I checked, UNIX had support for long filenames.
> >
> > And Corel actually tries to pass itself off as a Linux company, what with
> > Corel Linux OS and all.
> >
> > But on the bright side, Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe does come with a free
> > penguin beanie toy.  Almost makes up for the many DLL files now littered
> > around my filesystem.
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