Word perfect for Unix 1

[eyedoc1975]

Hi Friends,
Can any one guide me how to obtain a media copy for the
latest version of WordPerfect for Unix. Company was bought
out by Caldera and it was not revised for a while and They do not have any media for sale. Any help will be greatly
apprciated.

 

[edfair]

What was the latest? I have several copies of the word perfect versions (prior to Caldera) but they may be SCO only.
As you can probably guess I haven't looked at them for years.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[coffeysm]

It is not WordPerfect, but you have looked into OpenOffice?

 

[eyedoc1975]

Dear Edfair and coffeysm,
Thank you for the reply. I was looking for the wordperfect V.5.1 media which was licensed but I need media
copies to install on a server running SCO unix 5.07. Please let me know how can a get a copy. I have heard of open Office but have not tried it.
Thank you for your help.

 

[jetttech]

Edfair,

I'm in the same boat as eyedoc1975, I've got a license for wordperfect 7 for Unix which purchased several years ago but we never used because we ended up moving to an OpenVMS environment. Now we are moving to Linux and I still have this license from years ago but no media. All I need is the text console version (I think it capped out at 5.2) which I know was on the version 7 CD.

Is there any way I could get a copy of the Unix version you have? Even if it's not for Linux specifically, I can run it in Unix compatibility mode.

Thanks

 

[edfair]

I'm still in the search mode. I generally don't throw stuff like this away but I'm pretty good at hiding it from myself since it isn't something I need to touch regularly. Hopefully by the end of this weekend.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[edfair]

Bingo.

I have 2 sets of backup 3" floppies marked as 5 user 5.1 for sco unix. I think they are backup disks for 2 different customers, each of which was running 5.0.2 or 5.0.5 at the time they moved on to something else.
I'll try installing on a 5.0.5 to make sure at least one set is viable and would propose burning them onto a CD via DD if they end up being usable and what you need. Probably would put files into an install directory also. It would also be a good excuse for me to get an updated backup set.

The floppies are marked as being a 1993 version. The copies may be nearly that old and I have no guarantee that they are still readable.