George and Ron, I can attest to the ease with which either files or application installers can be transferred to OS 8 or 9 on SheepShaver (SS) by following Tom...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 28, 2007 2:28 pm
... Such as SheepShaver > WordPerfect ƒ > Clip Art (2 folders). That's about 100mb. John R....
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tbgibson
Sep 28, 2007 2:17 pm
This is totally off-topic and feel free to delete this (and of course, there's not need to follow up), but this is the nicest group I've seen in a long time....
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thomasbriant
Sep 28, 2007 5:02 am
... sheepshaver and wanted to ... to get it loaded. I'm not ... get it done. ... How to get program installers onto Sheepshaver. 1. Exit Sheepshaver. 2. Find...
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rontaube
Sep 28, 2007 4:23 am
I know that this is probably way off topic but I got wp to work on sheepshaver and wanted to use another favorite os 9 program on there but can't figure out...
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thomasbriant
Sep 28, 2007 3:46 am
... Quick and Easy Solution. 1. Log out of application(s) in Sheepshaver 2. Shut down Sheepshaver. 3. Now open up the disk image you use as a boot volume as an...
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George B. Richardson
goober94306
Sep 28, 2007 12:53 am
How can I copy stuff to my OSX Home Folder. I have a folder of financial data that I want to copy to my Home Folder on a regular basis, but can't seem to get...
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Lawrence Goodman
lawrencegoodman
Sep 27, 2007 12:57 pm
Wow, that's speedy service. Thanks John. Just bought your Teaching Yourself WP book too. It's coming in very handy. Lawrence [Non-text portions of this message...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 27, 2007 4:31 am
This macro will find specified text only if it is formatted in a specific style sheet, e.g. the text "cat" in the Document style. Free in the Files section...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 27, 2007 4:31 am
... See next post for announcement of a macro that does this. Thanks for the suggestion. You can do almost anything with WP macros, and new ideas are always...
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Lawrence Goodman
lawrencegoodman
Sep 26, 2007 5:26 pm
1) How do I search for a particulat bit of text with a specific style, i.e. I want to find all the instances of the word cat that are formatted with the ...
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Peggy Eubanks
thebrokebeader
Sep 26, 2007 12:51 am
It doesn't surprise me. They never have really cashed in on the superior product that WordPerfect is. ... -- peggy.eubanks@... "It's not enough to have...
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Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Sep 25, 2007 7:08 pm
This article seems to be indicating that Corel is de-emphasizing its WordPerfect product in favor of its new digital video products. ...
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pjandlar
Sep 22, 2007 5:15 am
I already checked whether size was the culprit, and it doesn't seem to be - some big folders show up, and small ones don't. I think OS 9 folders might be the...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 22, 2007 4:34 am
... Two possible reasons, as I understand it: a subfolder is not showing because it's above a certain size - not sure what that is, but say above 100 mb. Or, a...
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pjandlar
Sep 22, 2007 2:57 am
I *finally* got around to installing SheepShaver/WP on my Intel Mac (Thanks, John - that was so easy!). However, the Unix disk on the SheepShaver window...
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Paolo Tramannoni
tramannoni
Sep 21, 2007 3:22 am
... A working Aqua port of OpenOffice is NeoOffice: http://www.neooffice.org Paolo...
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Steve Kane
skanecocom
Sep 20, 2007 3:27 pm
... Here is a story on Lotus Symphony: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/ ibm_office_symphony_open_source/> Here is a url at IBM's site regarding Lotus...
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Ed Gould
ps2os2
Sep 20, 2007 3:00 pm
Here is a cut down FAQ (written by an IBMer): The Lotus Symphony FAQ list, posted on IBM's web site, indicates that a Macintosh version is coming soon. Which...
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Ed Gould
ps2os2
Sep 20, 2007 2:54 pm
... The URL I gave allowed me to download a MAC version of the program. As far as I can see the rest of the product is not yet MAC. I played with the product...
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thomasbriant
Sep 20, 2007 5:10 am
... Ed: The URL you gave is for the OpenOffice Mac port, not IBM's Lotus Symphony for Mac. That's for the future. The OpenOffice port for the Mac works fine....
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Ed Gould
ps2os2
Sep 20, 2007 4:17 am
IBM has come up with a replacement called symphoney at: . It is also open source. Check it out here: http:// porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html ...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Sep 18, 2007 9:42 pm
John Thanks for this. Geoff...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 18, 2007 9:04 pm
... Never hurts to delete a Prefs file (for that matter, it's a good idea to replace WP's prefs file every six months, from the backup you made right after...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Sep 18, 2007 6:41 am
John While we're on the topic of Sheepshaver, the most recent upgrade has issues with printing - it crashes in such a way that Mac OS X does not even offer me...
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Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Sep 18, 2007 6:15 am
... I didn't say that there was anything wrong with SheepShaver, or that it wasn't a wonderful product. What I said was that it isn't entirely seamless. One...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Sep 18, 2007 5:31 am
... Could you elaborate on that? SheepShaver sure exceeded my expectations. It's simply a Classic OS window on your OSX Mac. WordPerfect runs as fast,...
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villars@...
demivoix
Sep 17, 2007 1:11 pm
Thank you, Randy. am going to give it a try today. Nancy ... http://www.woodwarddirect.com...
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Peggy Eubanks
thebrokebeader
Sep 17, 2007 5:07 am
I'd love to know the name of the newbie group. Thanks. I'll just get the newest WP and run it using parallel or fusion. Thanks for that also. ... -- ...
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Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Sep 17, 2007 4:31 am
... The Macintosh version of WordPerfect was discontinued many years ago. It was never updated to be OS X compatible. You can still find a free copy of that...
