Two ways to run the classic word processor on a modern open-source box
a Linux version of the classic 1990s word processor WordPerfect – specifically, WordPerfect version 7 for Unix.
He has even wrapped it up in a .DEB package for easy installation on Ubuntu and Debian-family distros – and since it has few external dependencies, and since it's a safe bet that we won't see any updates to this 1997 program, you can probably install it on other distros using theThis is the original text-mode version, and it runs in a terminal window, or even on the Linux console. If you are one of the many admirers that WordPerfect had in its early days, you should enjoy this.
This means that this is a character-mode app, designed to run on a terminal – meaning a real hardware terminal, such as a Wyse 60, or on the text-mode console of a SCO Xenix server. The story of WordPerfect's rise and fall is also told by its former exec veep, W E"Pete" Peterson, in the book
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