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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
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> > Sure, something to keep me busy in the cold weather if I get RP8 working
> > and ghostscript compiled and mutt sending binary attachments.  I have not
> > used GUI WP but I am familiar with the DOS CLI versions.  How enormous is
> > WP8?  I could run WP4.2 off one floppy disk (and spellchecker off
> > another).  360K floppy disk.
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> The download was something like 26MB.  Floppy disks are, obviously, out of
> the question.  Don't know about keyboard functionality either.
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> > Maybe I could install WP8 without the clip art and fonts and thesaurus and
> > help files.  Is there any law against making a smaller package for
> > sharing?
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> I'm sure it's under copyright, so sharing (as a download of files)
> whatever you would do with it would probably be illegal.  But undoubtedly
> quite alot of stripping-down could be done.  There's a fair amount of
> documentation on the web about WP8 under Linux: maybe you could just add
> to the documentation, focussing on how to trim down the installation?
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It's not that hard to trim down. It usually installs itself in /opt/wp8, 
so trimming it down isn't that bad.

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> > I presume this recent WP will import .doc (WORD) and .rtf.  WP51 won't.
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> I really haven't used it much, but my supposition is that it's probably
> .doc compatible up to the versions of Word contemporaneous with it.
> Perhaps dedicated users have produced import filters for newer Word
> versions in the interim?  I'd be *very* surprised if it won't handle .rtf.
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> I'll plan on sending a CD of the tar.gz install file(s) I downloaded
> a couple of years ago.  I also have the stuff uncompressed on a CD I got
> from Edmunds that includes Corel Draw, if you'd rather have that.
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I have used WP 8, and it does handle .doc up until about Word 97, and it 
handles .rtf.

> James
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