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From: Kent Friis </dev/null@ehs.dk>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:01:51 -0700
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Jason Earl wrote:
> 
> George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org> wrote in article
> <E891HB.17A@oriole.sbay.org>...
> > I think that is why WordPerfect for Linux is pretty much exactly like
> > WordPerfect for DOS or any other platform.
> >
> 
> I realize that this doesn't really have anything to do with the thread (and
> I REALLY hate to break up your holy war), but I have been meaning to ask if
> you really need Caldera's OpenLinux to run their WordPerfect package, or
> are they just saying that.  I would appreciate a good word from anyone who
> knows.

Linux is Linux, no matter where it came from. But you'll probably need to get
it from Caldera, if you want to run it OFFICIALLY. I think that WP is only sold
with Linux, but if one of your friends had it, there probaly wouldn't be
anything stopping you from grabbing a copy.

But: I haven't tried. They may have made somekind of check, that will require
some debugging, to find out how to make it run.

Only one way to find out:
give it a try.

> Thanks;
> Jason Earl

Kent
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