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Office Alternatives?
emh:
Open Office does not import or export WordPerfect file formats. If you want to change wpd files over to Open Office files, you'll first need to save them as doc files in WordPerfect, then open them in Open Office.
And yes, there is/was a version of WordPerfect for Linux. I have never used it, but I heard Word Perfect 2000 was little more than the Windows version run with Wine. You could probably still get it somewhere, but as far as I know, Corel doesn't write for Linux anymore. You can still get Corel Draw at http://linux.corel.com
voidmain:
You won't get much from Corel for Linux any time soon. Not too long after they started porting apps Microsoft bought them out as they do with any company that poses a threat:
http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.html
emh:
Well, the article didn't explicitly say that Microsoft told Corel that they couldn't produce for Linux, but it does seem that way, given Microsoft's past.
I think Star Office imports and exports Word Perfect format files. I don't know that for sure, and I'm not about to spend $75 to find out.....
voidmain:
Well you can pretty much tell from their "news" page how commited to Linux they are since the buyout. All Linux news appears to have ceased as of Aug 15, 2000:
http://linux.corel.com/news/today.htm
They've been assimilated.
[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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