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WordPerfect for DOS: The Program That Refuses to Die

posted by martyb on Monday October 29 2018, @06:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the Reveal-Codes dept.

Appalbarry writes:

A recent Guardian article encouraging writers to abandon MS Word included a comment from a reader that read:

With 70+ books under my belt, I'm still using WordPerfect 5.1. Luckily there's an excellent website offering free software to enable one to use this DOS software with Windows 10: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/

If you follow that link you'll find a treasure trove of tools and advice that will help you run WordPerfect 5.1 on any Windows system, as well as Macs and Linux boxes. The author does note that it's much easier on 32 bit systems than 64 bit, but it can be done on either. There's even advice on making printers work.

(Of late I've been using the generally excellent FocusWriter full screen editor for distraction free writing, but if I can get WP 5.1 working....) (And, just for the record, Corel still sells Wordperfect Office.)

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Monday October 29 2018, @07:52AM (2 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Monday October 29 2018, @07:52AM (#754953)

    Of late I've been using the generally excellent FocusWriter [gottcode.org] full screen editor for distraction free writing

    For those who don't want to go to the trouble of installing FocusWriter just for this, here's a quick tutorial on how to get the same thing using a common word processor, let's say Word:

    Click the View menu and select "Full Screen".

    You're welcome.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:44AM (#754970)

    Alt-F11 does it for me :)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @05:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @05:52PM (#755227)

    Windows will still interrupt and ask to install the new update ...