SCO/WordPerfect

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:35:21PM -0400, Fairlight thus spoke:
> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:30:07PM -0400, John Esak achieved the spontaneous
> generation of the following:
> > don't know an answer, should not have even rambled this stuff out. Maybe
> > login to the FP Room sometime when Fairlight is there... often in the
> > mornings until about 9/10am Eastern Time... or late at night... very late at
> > night. :-)  He knows WP fairly well, and I don't have anything but 5.2/6.0
> > to experiment with... sorry.

> While I did know WP -very- well, and still remember much of its
> functionality, the last time I dealt with WP was 5.1 on SCO
> 3.2.4.2 (OSR2) in about 1993. I'm afraid I really remember very
> little about the configuration aspects at the system level. I
> do remember the license manager being a complete PITA. :(

Didn't one of the problems involve the system name and the later
version required a change or was that the Lotus?

I also remember doing some strange things getting it running in the
SCO 5.x environment.

I just ssh'ed in from a FreeBSD environment into a 5.0.5 system
and the scoconcol setting works exactly as it should from FreeBSD.
That was a suprise.

Browsing around I see the README directions tell you to mount
the Corel WP CD then change to that directory.

At that point type ./install.wp

After that to install more terminal drivers  type ./install.wp -t.

Use a -p flag to install more printer drivers, -l to install more
languages and the -e flag to install extras.

> I'd suggest asking Corel, except I'm pretty sure they'll say
> it's not supported any longer for *nix. It wouldn't hurt to
> try, however. Worst they can say is no.

It runs fine on the 5.0.5 - but I'm not where the docs are and I do
NOT recall what had to be done to fire off the licensing.

The README.FLEXlm has these details

It will not start the license manager unless you add

if [ -f <WPDIR>/shbin10/wplicense ]; then
   /<WPDIR>/shbin/wplicense -s  #WP8
fi

That has to be added to one of the system rc files at startup.

I typed this in reading from a screen logged in and I don't I've
made any mistakes. I can't send mail from that machine as it's
is only set up for a database and nothing going out at all.

I hope this helps.

If not send me email and I might be able to go there.

>From the startup line you can see this is Corel's WP8 for Unix.

If the version in question is earlier I don't know if this applies.
I don't recall the version of WP from the first message - if it was
in there and I can't easily get out of entering this to go read it.

Bill


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