WordPerfect 7.x (Unix)

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WordPerfect 7.x (Unix)

During the late 1980's, WordPerfect was THE standard word processor for DOS based PCs in big business. Under DOS, it competed mostly against Wordstar. WordPerfect for Windows enjoyed some success in the early Windows environments, but was quickly displaced by Microsoft Word for Windows. Later Windows versions were part of Borland Office/Novell PerfectOffice/Corel Office/Corel WordPerfect Office.

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Elmobay

Over at WPUniverse.com, Ed Mendelson let the community know of a project by Tavis Ormandy that brings WordPerfect 7.0 for Unix/Linux to modern versions of Linux.

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/wordperfect.html

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

Elmobay

Ed has created an installation tutorial. It can be found on his WordPerfect for DOS site:

http://wpdos.org/unix.html

Elmobay

Ed changed the address of the unix site:

https://mendelson.org/wpdos/unix.html