WordPerfect/2

[A.D. Fundum]

FWIW: does the ancient WordPerfect/2 still work with e.g. Warp 4 or
eCS?

I've got all files from a working install. But after copying all DLL
files to the same directory, it SYS3175s with eCS 1.2. Its INSTALL.EXE
works, but asks for disk 2.


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[Alex Taylor]

ISTR there was a way to tweak the installer into getting past that. I
can try and dig that up later.

It works fine on Warp 4. I was able to get it working on MCP as well,
and possibly even eCS 1.0 (I don't clearly remember), but in eCS 1.1
and higher I could never get it to run without crashing. (I had some
back-and-forth discussion with a few more knowledgeable people about
trying to debug what was going wrong, but I got sidetracked and eventually
lost interest after OpenOffice became available.)

You do have to deregister the WPS classes it installs in order to run
it on OS/2 4.5x, as I recall.

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[Percival P. Cassidy]

I did try WP 5.2 for OS/2 briefly on Warp 4 (I think, but it might have
been Warp 3), but reverted to WP for DOS running in OS/2. I understand
that there was an updated version of WP/2, but I never did get hold of a
copy.

For years I found that WP 7 for Win 3.x worked well in WinOS2, but I no
longer have a need for fancy word processing and did not reinstall it
when I reinstalled eCS.

Perce

[A.D. Fundum]

>> FWIW: does the ancient WordPerfect/2 still work with e.g. Warp 4
>> or eCS?

> I did try WP 5.2 for OS/2 briefly on Warp 4

Thanks for confirming that. If needed, I can try that too.

> I no longer have a need for fancy word processing and
> did not reinstall it when I reinstalled eCS.

About the same here. AFAICT I installed WP/2 once in the early 90s,
just because an employer had it, and kept the files.


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[A.D. Fundum]

>> FWIW: does the ancient WordPerfect/2 still work with e.g. Warp 4
>> or eCS?

> ISTR there was a way to tweak the installer into getting past that.
> I can try and dig that up later.

Thanks. I now know enough to not delete the WP/2 files, but there's no
need to hurry. I'll rate it nice-to-have, and due to digging we'll
maybe get something out of the wreckage one day. If it's possible and
documented how to reinstall it, it'll reinstall it.

> It works fine on Warp 4. I was able to get it working on MCP as
well

> and possibly even eCS 1.0 (I don't clearly remember)

> lost interest after OpenOffice became available.

About the same here, hence the FWIW. The rest of the world assumes
Word, without perfection. I haven't lost a few chapters of my diary,
and the last WP version I really had in use (and still installed in
working order) was WP 5.1 for DOS.

> You do have to deregister the WPS classes it installs in order to
> run it on OS/2 4.5x, as I recall.

I still have the same directory structure and drive layout (except for
some unimportant., recreatable PL directory), so it's not unlike that
classes play a role. If it moved files to the bootdrive, I may have
lost those too, but so far it only complained about DLLs in a
directory that wasn't inlcuded in the LIBPATH yet .


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[A.D. Fundum]

>> You do have to deregister the WPS classes it installs in order
>> to run it on OS/2 4.5x, as I recall.

Probably not usefull, but FTR. This is the POPUPLOG.OS2-entry when the
DLLs are copied to the main WP52-directory (as opposed to changing the
LIBPATH):

05-16-2012 18:16:49 SYS3175 PID 004f TID 0001 Slot 00a3
D:\WP\WP52\WPOS2.EXE
c0000005
000eeca8
P1=00000000 P2=ffffffff P3=XXXXXXXX P4=XXXXXXXX
EAX=00002534 EBX=00000004 ECX=0000000b EDX=00000000
ESI=00003866 EDI=0000001e
DS=0000 DSACC=**** DSLIM=********
ES=0637 ESACC=00f3 ESLIM=0000f313
FS=150b FSACC=00f3 FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000 GSACC=**** GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=053f:0000024c CSACC=00fb CSLIM=000026ef
SS:ESP=0637:0000eef0 SSACC=00f3 SSLIM=0000f313
EBP=0000ef00 FLG=00012246

WPOS2.EXE 00b9:0000024c


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[Barry Landy]

On Wed, 16 May 2012, A.D. Fundum wrote:

:> >> FWIW: does the ancient WordPerfect/2 still work with e.g. Warp 4

:> >> or eCS?
:>
:> > I did try WP 5.2 for OS/2 briefly on Warp 4
:>
:>Thanks for confirming that. If needed, I can try that too.

FWIW I am running WP5.1 for DOS in a DOSBOX (plain OS2 standard) under
ECS21. Works fine. I also use OO quite a lot but I haev a lot of
customised stuff in WP that I would not like to lose.

:>
:> > I no longer have a need for fancy word processing and

:> > did not reinstall it when I reinstalled eCS.
:>
:>About the same here. AFAICT I installed WP/2 once in the early 90s,
:>just because an employer had it, and kept the files.
:>
:>
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[A.D. Fundum]

> FWIW I am running WP5.1 for DOS in a DOSBOX
> (plain OS2 standard) under ECS21.

Yup, IIRC the only "problem" is that my eCS 1.2 DATABASE.TXT thinks
it's Multimate. There are a few WP.EXEs in that OS file. Only a name
change is required.

Again IIRC, a slightly related app, DataPerfect, will also work in a
VIO window instead of the default DATABASE.TXT fullscreen session.

BTW, my WP51.ICO file isn't that old. It's based on other WP icons.
Availbale for a short while:

http://home.uni-one.nl/m1/wp51.zip


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