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Re: Considering Linux -- Have 2 Questions

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From: Ori Kitai
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:00
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Hello Phil!
I asked around and found that the WordPerfect 8, that comes with the 'SuSE'
Linux system can be read by the Windows version as well as Word 95 (should
also be able to read the Word 97 - but the salesmen wasn't sore).

Yours,
Ori Kitai

Cris bessette <bessette@rabun.net> wrote in message
news:X5qd3.316$X4.4560@news.goodnet.com...
> I used to have my system set up to dual boot,it worked fine but I had only
> one computer. At the time I couldn't get on the internet to save my life
in
> Linux so I was always rebooting to get into windows the rebooting to get
> back into Linux, I you ever want to get rid of the Linux partition, the
best
> way I found was to use the Linux Fdisk program, because The dos Fdisk
doesnt
> know What To do with  linux partition. Now I have a seperate Win95 Machine
> and Linux Desktop/File server/webserver/Samba server at home, So I can
study
> The networking and server potentials of linux.
>
> Sorry Don't know anything about the word perfect question.
> Cris
> <phil80@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:3772FB16.A5E36086@netscape.net...
> > First:   I am considering doing a dual boot system with
> > Linux and Win98 or setting up a file server with Linux as
> > the OS.  If I do a dual boot system, how hard will it be to
> > return the Linux partition to Win98 -- to reclaim it
> > overall?  Will the entire hard drive have to be reformatted?
> >
> > Second:  Stupid question, but gotta ask it.  Will
> > WordPerfect files created with WordPerfect for Linux be
> > readable by the WordPerfect  written for Win98 and NT?  I
> > recall that early versions of some software (back in the
> > early Mac and PC days) would not be readable on non-like
> > systems even though a given file would still have the same
> > file extension.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
>
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