From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Testardi Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 on DOSEMU 1.4.0 (wow!) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:07:14 -0400 Message-ID: <464BC6E2.9050905@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Sirs/Madams, I just wanted to let you know that WordPerfect 5.1 runs nearly perfectly on the latest DOSEMU, and it was easy (even for a Linux newbie like me) to set up on Kubuntu. As far as I can tell, everything in WP works just like it should (well, with the exception of a tiny F5-F5 feature that doesn't work on recent Windows versions either), and I'm absolutely impressed! If the DOS box were just a little bigger (i.e. bigger with clean fonts), I wouldn't even know I wasn't running DR-OpenDOS 7.02 (which I run also). No delays, no crashes (so far!), and no surprises! [I tried installing another small DOS program with sound, and it worked perfectly too.] Maybe I will be able to say "Hasta la Vista!" to Windows! I never upgraded past 98SE and I tried my first Linux distribution in 1999 (Caldera OpenLinux) and several since then but couldn't get them bug free or functional enough to make the effort worthwhile to switch. Now, I see no reason not to switch to Linux! Thank you very much. Sincerely, David Testardi