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Information Product type Vendor WordPerfect Corporation Release date 1988 Minimum CPU 8088 Minimum RAM 384KB User interface Text Platform Downloads Download Name Version Language CPU File type File size 5.1 (09-25-91) English x86 5¼ Floppy 3.6MB 5.1 (11-06-89) English x86 5¼ Floppy 4.18MB 5.1 (3-9-92) English x86 5¼ Floppy 3.48MB 5.1 (5-8-90) Dutch x86 3½ Floppy 3.33MB 5.1 (7-1-92) UK English x86 3½ Floppy 3.65MB 5.1 for DOS Swedish x86 3½ Floppy 3.64MB 5.1 English x86 Archive 26.21MB 5.1 for DOS Spanish x86 Archive 3.11MB 5.1+ for DOS English x86 3½ Floppy 5.36MB Comments.
Shutterbug December 2008 Pdf. I presently have a computer that has a hard drive with Dos 6.2 as an operating system. I use Word Perfect 5.1 for all my customer billing files. This hard drive is failing. I have another computer with Win 98 on it that is running fine. Before the drive with Dos on it fails completely I would like to install it in the second computer as a primary slave and copy my billing files to the second computer's primary hard drive.
Then I have to re-install WP51 on to the second computer's primary. Does anyone know if WP5.1 for Dos will run under Win 98's Dos prompt?
That is can I install it on a Win 98 computer? My other problem is that the copy of WP51 which is on 10 floppies and which is also presently on my first computer has gotten corrupted and so I can't install this on my new machine. So my other question is: does anyone know if WP51 is available as free or shareware due to its age now or if it is still available at all? Thanks very much for any assistance. Lenny John Tserkezis 30.06.11 1:35. Klem kedidelhopper wrote: >I presently have a computer that has a hard drive with Dos 6.2 as an >operating system.
I use Word Perfect 5.1 for all my customer billing >files. This hard drive is failing. I have another computer with Win 98 >on it that is running fine. Before the drive with Dos on it fails >completely I would like to install it in the second computer as a >primary slave and copy my billing files to the second computer's >primary hard drive. Then I have to re-install WP51 on to the second >computer's primary. >Does anyone know if WP5.1 for Dos will run under Win 98's Dos prompt? >That is can I install it on a Win 98 computer?
I have no idea, (I'll guess yes) but a re-install on your '98 box should answer that question fairly quickly. >My other problem is that the copy of WP51 which is on 10 floppies and >which is also presently on my first computer has gotten corrupted and >so I can't install this on my new machine. >So my other question is: >does anyone know if WP51 is available as free or shareware due to its >age now or if it is still available at all? I haven't seen any above-board downloads of WP51, but it's visible on the torrents. Technically that's not legal but you can make up your own mind about that. However, upgrading is a very viable option. Microsoft Word can be used with a WordPerfect file converter.
OpenOffice can READ WordPerfect files, but you'll have to save them in another format. Ditto for LibreOffice (the OpenOffice fork).
Microsoft options will cost money, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are all free. Both Microsoft Word and Open/LibreOffice have a learning curve associated with them, since they (well EVERYTHING) is so vastly different to WP51. There are probably some more options (WordPerfect is up to v11) but that and just about all the other options might involve money, and all will have a learning curve anyway.
-- Say it with flowers - Give her a triffid. Mendelson 30.06.11 3:09. Klem kedidelhopper wrote: >I presently have a computer that has a hard drive with Dos 6.2 as an >operating system. I use Word Perfect 5.1 for all my customer billing >files. This hard drive is failing. I have another computer with Win 98 >on it that is running fine. Before the drive with Dos on it fails >completely I would like to install it in the second computer as a >primary slave and copy my billing files to the second computer's >primary hard drive.
Then I have to re-install WP51 on to the second >computer's primary. Does anyone know if WP5.1 for Dos will run under >Win 98's Dos prompt? That is can I install it on a Win 98 computer? I've run it under Windows 7 CMD (replaced DOS prompt). I've never actually installed WP5. : Appcrash : South Park The Stick Of Truth.exe. 1 since the first time, I've just copied the WP directory over.
It has been carried over on a sucession of computers from when I first got it on a 286 running MS/DOS 3.3. The latest one runs Windos 7, but Windows 98 was one step along the way. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge.
William Sommerwerck 30.06.11 4:42. I enjoyed WP 5.1 and got very good at it. Then they did the WYSIWYG interface. I suppose that was nice, but it got in the way of actually doing the more important stuff.