That works fine. I've done that in the past, and I still have a copy of wp51 for dos laying around my office somewhere. Although, I have moved on to markup languages, and if I am really in a hurry I use Openoffice 1.1 and gnopernicus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Re: Does anyone have a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 for linux? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > what about running wp 5.1 for dos in dosemu? > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at > 10:22:59PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > > Hi, Cris. > > I doubt you can get your hands on a WP 5.1 for Linux, but there are > > alternatives to this. I am thinking of three of them right off of the top of > > my head. > > > > 1. Download OpenOffice.org 1.1 from OpenOffice.org and get and install the > > java-access-bridge for gnome. After you configure everything right you can > > get some use out of OpenOffice, but it has a long ways to go before it works > > as well as Windows based wordprocessors. > > 2. You can purchase StarOffice 7, but it doesn't work that much better than > > OpenOffice with gnopernicus. > > 3. Learn a markup language such as xml or html which is totally text based, > > and works in any text editor you like. > > I would choose xml as many computer manuals such as the Mandrake users > > guides are written in xml, and printed out looking as good as if not better > > than a high priced wordprocessor like MS Word. > > It is simply a matter of learning xml, and learning on how to make the > > document look good. > > Hth. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > back. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAXFOL9XVrM3ri110RAij7AJ9ssXWJQpUSFgSzWxr96GUr6vLegACePXBH > Tfcl+Imxro0y8Q1+Rfm5qEM= > =q1Zr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
