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On Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:39:07 GMT, Richard Jenkins (rjenkins@rjenkins.pcug.org.au) wrote:
: Linux Lovers ...
: 
: Has anyone used the Wordperfect + Mootif combo with a flavour of
: linux other than Open Linux?  I am not shelling out buckets of
: washers to find out it wont work with my Red Hat Piccasso!  As a
: genuine w/p it probably makes my windoze w/p redundant and I am
: not sure if wordperfect for DOS (ver 5.1) will operate under
: dosemu??
: 
Perhaps you might consider ApplixWare as an alternative?  It comes RPMed
for easy installation so it's ideal in that regard for a RedHat platform.
I've been running it for a bit over half a year now.  I've really only made
extensive use of the graphics program, which I can recommend for
block-diagram-type work.  The word-processor worked fine for what little I
have used of it.  The spreadsheet seemed a bit flaky, but that might have
improved with the new version (4.2=>4.3).  Also, the postscript output is
of very good quality (unlike some other commercial word processors I could
mention :-) ).  It has filters for WordPerfect and MS Word.  I believe that
Leonard Chan distributes it (http://www.zip.com.au/~lychan).

Not to particularly recommend it _over_ WordPerfect, but if compatibility
with a Red Hat platform is of primary concern then it's definitely an
option...

William Webber
-- 
William Webber                      Grad. Dip. in CS, RMIT, Australia
wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au         literate programming, Linux, chess 
  "Wrote my own communications software in LISP.  Got a phone bill
  for a thousand dollars.  My computer keeps calling itself."
        -- Rod Schmidt (in the style of Steve Wright)