Re: Looking for a text mode word processor

[Horacio <homega@wanadoo.es>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:27:04AM -0500, Sam Stern wrote:
> 
> Hi Horacio,
> 
> I'll give Jed/Joe a look. BTW, there are BSDI versions of
> Both WordPerfect and WordStar (for older versions of BSDI)
> so I was hoping that someone had managed to get this going
> on OpenBSD's emulation of BSDI -- guess it's no dice there.
> The reason for the question is that ispell and friends
> really do not cope well with Dyslexia based phonetic
> miss-spellings nor do the current crop of front ends cope
> well with the "multiple tries to get a word miss spelled
> but close enough to figure out what word you wanted"
> approach.

Hold it.. there is a misunderstanding here.  You said
WordStar, which led us to believe you refered to ancient,
vanished WordStar word processor (see www.wordstar.org), and
which both jed & joe simulate its keystrokes.
But I think you meant StarWord from StarOffice
(www.sun.com/../staroffice).

Anyway, WordPerfect8 used to work on OpenBSD under Linux
emulation, installed through a ports script by Dug Song.
I recall there was some linux file that I had to manually
add, but can't remember which one.  Now WP8 for linux is no
longer available for d/load from the corel pages, so you will
have to get it from other sources.


p.s. I checked and yes, there was a version of WordStar for
AT&T Unix sometime in the 80's.  The version was WordStar
2000, and I'd love to get my hands on it but I haven't seen
anything but a small reference to it.


-- 
Horacio