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I had WPMac working nicely and then I repaired disk permissions with Disk Utility on my Mac OS X 10.6. Now WPMac tries to open but stalls after displaying the...
15 Jan 24, 2012
5:36 am

em315
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"literary scholars have become increasingly interested in studying how the tools of writing both shape literature and are reflected in it": ...
3 Jan 13, 2012
9:15 pm

John R
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I've had it! I was proud of how long I stayed on Tiger: almost as long as I stayed with system 6 after 7 came out, or as long as I stayed there before moving...
15 Jan 11, 2012
9:27 pm

Chris Harshman
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It's only a small chapter in the book of software, but I wonder whether any other PC computer program in history, once abandoned, has had anything like the...
1 Jan 5, 2012
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John R
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Can anyone tell me the procedure to install the Prefab Player? I downloaded the package from the files section. The manual says that the player is installed by...
3 Dec 29, 2011
3:32 am

Rick Albright
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I copy documents into Word in order to save them as pdf. This messes up formatting, and so forth. Is it possible to somehow save them as pdf in Wordperfect? ...
5 Dec 28, 2011
3:37 am

Rick Albright
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WPMac 3.1 onwards was compatible with QuickDraw GX, but does it benefit from it? I recently came across a posting on another forum that suggests that screen...
4 Dec 18, 2011
6:07 pm

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"Windows ain't done 'till Lotus won't run" http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017034496_microsoftnovell17.html John R....
3 Dec 17, 2011
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Paul Konnersman
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... I've just discovered that Pixelmator (I have an old demo version of v1.2 here) unfortunately declares a bad UTI of "com.wpg.wpg" for .wpg files in its...
4 Dec 16, 2011
9:17 pm

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This version contains two changes: 1) Updates the Info.plist file to include Uniform Type Identifiers for .wpg files to match those declared in Gero Herrmann's...
1 Dec 16, 2011
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I just released version 3.5 of the Spotlight & Quick Look plug-ins. With this version, Quick Look previews for WPG files have become possible. WPG files are...
4 Dec 13, 2011
7:28 pm

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This page has a large collection of WP macros, many by John, but many by other people: http://freegroups.net/macos_files/Text_and_Editors.shtml Is it worth...
3 Dec 13, 2011
5:09 pm

John R
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Dear Group: Having "lurked" for quite a while, I'm fairly familiar with what this group is - and isn't - about. This is one of those OFF-topic to this group...
4 Dec 8, 2011
2:00 am

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I've put together an AppleScript that makes it easy to create your own SheepShaver-based system for running Mac OS 8.5 through 9.0.4 under OS X. You will need...
3 Nov 30, 2011
5:18 am

em315
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I have installed the WPMacAppliance installation of SheepShaver and have it running nicely; however, I would like to change the default location of the Unix...
6 Nov 18, 2011
4:10 pm

em315
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I must be missing something. When I try to run these apps, I get a message saying that the Classic environment is no longer supported. I have SheepShaver...
5 Nov 16, 2011
3:56 am

Rick Albright
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... Good to know. I've deleted the link here to it. ... And nice to have! Tools like this support a more flexible and productive work environment. ... ...
1 Nov 12, 2011
10:41 pm

John R
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After some earlier exchanges, I wondered if it might be possible to create something useful that hasn't been done before. So I threw together an Automator...
2 Nov 12, 2011
7:58 pm

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Stumbled across a utility that opens and reads (with some formatting) WPMac docs -- on a Mac. Nice to see, as a sign of interest in the file format as well as...
8 Nov 11, 2011
7:50 pm

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Hello, I know this group is primarily about WordPerfect, but with all the effort put into maintaining a working "Classic" environment after Apple removed the ...
29 Nov 8, 2011
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Corel distributed a set of "WP IBM Character Set" fonts with WPMac 3.5e or some other version, and I've been including it with any WPMac/SheepShaver or...
3 Nov 5, 2011
3:09 am

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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/11/02/can-yahoo-be-rescued/?hp...
2 Nov 3, 2011
4:19 pm

Chad Smith
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I've substantially revised the system I put together that uses SheepShaver to run WPMac in a window on the OS X desktop. It now prints directly to any printer ...
3 Oct 30, 2011
4:49 am

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I've revised the system I've put together for running WordPerfect for DOS under Mac OS X. (Remember, this is WP for *DOS* - not Windows, not the Mac - the one...
12 Oct 28, 2011
1:01 pm

Richard
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You can copy and paste text, including styled text, to and from WordPerfect in SheepShaver or Basilisk, and any OSX application. When we say clipboard, we...
3 Oct 19, 2011
9:22 pm

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I downloaded and installed the WPMacApp last week on a iMac 1.25 Power PC running OS 10.5. My machine is partitioned w/ OS 10.5 and 10.4.11 running Classic....
4 Oct 19, 2011
7:20 pm

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Our own Ed Mendelson has published "The Human Face of Type" in the New York Review of Books: ...
14 Oct 18, 2011
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Just received messge from John R and installed the latest version of Sheepshaver/WP Can Open but keeps coming up with Numeric operation too large. May have to...
10 Oct 17, 2011
2:02 pm

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What would personal computers (not just Apple) be like without his contributions? Would there even be a GUI? Xerox invented it, but it took others, including...
2 Oct 6, 2011
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Kevin Jaques, B.A., J...
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... Thank you for the tribute, John. The Washington Post's Hank Stuever wrote some poignant words about Steve and the passage of time in an article titled...
2 Oct 6, 2011
2:54 pm

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