... Very nice! Just curious...why did you choose DOSBox instead of CrossOver? Because DOSBox is free? CrossOver isn't ideal for a lot of things, but...
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em315
Nov 1, 2010 9:34 pm
Crossover is for Windows applications WordPerfect for DOS is (as the name suggests) for DOS, and Crossover can't do anything with it. The page you linked to is...
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caveyak
Nov 2, 2010 12:33 am
Randy, Apologies if you know this already but Crossover Office is based on WINE but has some proprietary, closed source additions that make it function better...
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em315
Nov 2, 2010 1:17 am
It's been quite a while since I tried out Crossover or Wine, but I found WordPerfect (version 10 or 11, I think) more or less unusable with both, despite its...
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em315
Nov 3, 2010 4:35 am
I've now updated this system with macros that exchange text between WPDOS and the OS X clipboard. Details in this post on WPUniverse.com: ...
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jrethorst
Nov 3, 2010 4:53 am
Takes me back . . . I cut my word processing teeth on MacWrite v. 1, and was then quite pleased to discover MS Word 1.0. Footnotes! No clunky ruler in the...
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Nov 3, 2010 6:50 am
Amen, John. In that brief memory you have encapsulated why WP 5.1/DOS (or the equivalent AOS or Unix versions) remains a classic after 20 years: Opening to a...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Nov 3, 2010 8:13 am
Some of us still print on shift-F7 and search on F2 even though we use WPMac ... truly, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Geoff Geoff Gilbert Professor of...
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Steve Kane
skanecocom
Nov 3, 2010 3:06 pm
... I believe someone at the time summed it up this way: Word 3 Users 0...
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em315
Nov 3, 2010 3:09 pm
John, I hope you'll take a look at the folder action script that I put together for this WPDOS system to handle printing and PDF creation (based on the one...
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Paul Cowan
utarjim
Nov 3, 2010 3:15 pm
... However, you’ve just summed up why I had an aversion to WP 5.1 and why Mac word processors were such a breath of fresh air: there was no particular...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Nov 3, 2010 5:19 pm
As right as Paste on Command-V, no doubt ... Geoff Gilbert Professor of Law Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Refugee Law School of Law and Human...
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em315
Nov 3, 2010 5:42 pm
The "V" is supposed to be a graphic reminder of something being forced into the existing text, something like a funnel over the text itself. Not hard to...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Nov 3, 2010 6:55 pm
I have been using ctrl-v and cmd-v for over 20 years and that's the first time I have ever been told that. I had always assumed that Copy was Cmd-C and since...
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Nov 3, 2010 7:42 pm
... Notwithstanding Geoff's comment, key bindings are a trivial issue, of course arbitrary, and were not a critical (or perhaps even desirable) part of the WP...
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Chad Smith
gimpshopdotnet
Nov 4, 2010 12:49 am
There is something geek-chic about those old retro WordPerfect Shortcut template grids that fit over your F-Keys row. Back when keyboard were huge, clunky,...
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Chad Smith
gimpshopdotnet
Nov 4, 2010 12:57 am
One (or more) shortcut that doesn't make sense in a method where many do is better than NONE of the shortcuts having any meaning. I'd rather have C=Copy,...
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Paul Cowan
utarjim
Nov 4, 2010 12:58 am
... You would bring that up ;-) The rationale usually heard for that is that it's an upside-down caret mark. Yeah, right. I'm sure the fact that it's right...
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Paul Cowan
utarjim
Nov 4, 2010 12:58 am
... I was speaking of naïve users who had no clue about file management etc apart from the native features in WordPerfect. Seen lots of 'em. bye, P. (^_^) -- ...
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Rick Albright
logres0
Nov 4, 2010 2:18 am
I began with a brief stint with WP 4.2 for DOS before my organization migrated to WP 5.1. (Before that, our secretarial staff had the IBM 5520 with the, I...
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Rick Albright
logres0
Nov 4, 2010 2:21 am
I think I've heard that the Tactile Pro keyboard for the Mac is available again. It has the mechanical clicky keys--same feel as the old Apple Design keyboard....
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Doug Auwarter
mangueirense
Nov 4, 2010 3:22 am
And why in hell hasn't anyone else (word processing program engineers) figured out what a helpful feature this is??? Doug ... [Non-text portions of this...
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Nov 4, 2010 3:31 am
... None, because the graphical screen is there for print preview, and the text screen is very aware of spacing(*) even though it does not display the fonts or...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Nov 4, 2010 7:06 am
... The emphasis was on whether this old dog should/ could have learned the new keyboard shortcuts when moving to Macs in 1993. What WP did give me, though,...
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Thomas J. Rostafinski...
tjrostaf
Nov 4, 2010 10:29 pm
Chad, I couldn't agree more with your comments. I use, and customize, keyboard shortcuts a lot, and not only in WP, though WP lends itself to this...
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jrethorst
Nov 5, 2010 3:50 am
... No actual such challenge. I was just (or am, in Tips & Macros) recommending grouping keystroke assignments by function, as well as using easy-to-remember...
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jrethorst
Nov 5, 2010 3:22 pm
Working on it . . . John R....
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Thomas J. Rostafinski...
tjrostaf
Nov 5, 2010 8:48 pm
John, I do use mnemonics, though I have probably not been optimally systematic in setting up groupings. Connectix' Speed Doubler was nice, and its successor,...
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David Schmalz
ddschmalz
Nov 6, 2010 12:33 am
Tom, I always liked the way Windows programs had one letter underlined in the menus, too. [Of course, if you were to try MS Word these days, you'd find that...
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Rick Albright
logres0
Nov 6, 2010 4:17 am
... I know that there was print preview, but I seem to recall (though vaguely, I admit), that it was somewhat quirky. Maybe I'm mis-remembering. Then we moved...
