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Caldera sells both a WordPerfect and Motif Bundle ($130 US)
and the Caldera Internet Office Suite ($219 US). Both include
WordPerfect 6.0 for Linux.
Overall, WP 6.0 has been good to me. I have generated 20-30 large
documents and numerous small ones, probably 1000+ pages if I printed
them all out. The only problem that I have is that I use WP Times
font under Linux and it is not compatible with the WP True Type Times
font under Windows.
The author has been using WordPerfect for Linux on Caldera
Network Desktop (CND) for the past year. The system is a
P6/200, 64M RAM, SCSI, CND 1.0 with RiskyHack patches to
the Linux 2.0.30 kernel, updated RPM, and many, many RPMS from
Redhat and Caldera's WWW sites.
Visit Caldera's WWW site at
http://www.caldera.com
Installation was easy. I just followed the directions provided....
I did have to add wp to my fvwm menu (I am using FVWM95
on CND 1.0 with lots of patches) and to looking glass's menus.
My platform is a P6/200, 64M RAM, Caldera CND 1.0, RiskyHacks to libc 5.4.4,
kernel 2.0.30 (Joliet and FAT32 patches), dual SCSI, CD-R, etc.
WP uses 74 MB of disk space.
- Export to HTML has several bugs with complex documents requiring some
reformatting.
- Occasional crashes (very rare).
- Occasionally WP loops where it uses all memory and runs out of swap space,
then crashes.
- Some fonts are different between Windows and UNIX versions.
- It has been reported to me that some WP macros for UNIX versions
are different than those for Windows versions.
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