Re: Is it wrong to install WordPerfect 5.1 on a Win XP machine?

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"Doug" <stand@attention> wrote in message
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| Notwithstanding the fact that WordPerfect 5.1 can be used under
| Win XP, wouldn't it be prudent to switch sooner or later to the
| NEW WordPerfect versions? Old files created under version 5.1
| can still be read and modified as I have done so.
|
| Version 5.1 once learned was quite a good word processor for its
| time. I can appreciate the difficulties with finding proper
| drivers while using XP tho'.
|
| Doug

My blind father is using a crumbling DOS machine; it got infected by a virus two
years ago and may have a boot sector virus (his first virus in years from
checking his e-mail and he never used anti-virus), and his 16 MB of RAM has
shriveled down to 4 MB of RAM. He is massively resistant to change, well past
the point of obstructionism. He just got a donated Win XP Pro machine (PIII 733
mhz, 384 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD with 5 GB in use, and no cd/dvd burner - a machine I
told him to avoid but it was free and he wouldn't avoid it). He'll be using the
machine for scanning/OCR to text files, and for checking his e-mail in Outlook
2003 and saving those e-mails in text files.

If he wanted to install the DOS version of WordPerfect 5.1 onto the Win XP
system, he'd probably have to go onto e-Bay and order a fresh copy since his old
floppies of the program are corrupted, priced anywhere from $1 to $99 or more.
The macros available with WP 5.1 he knows how to use down pat, but those ways of
working with macros are not available on the emulated WP 5.1 version in
WordPerfect Office 12.

I don't know much at all about DOS, and he knows extremely little about Windows,
so there is a complete eclipse of knowlege between us. Mention anti-virus
programs, firewalls, or Windows Critical Updates to him and he does NOT get the
concept, no matter how many times I tell him. He figures an operating system
never needs an update...he was spoiled using DOS 6.22!

So, if he bought DOS WP 5.1 from e-bay, it would be installable onto a Win XP
machine?
He wouldn't get a message complaining about the OS being to foreign during the
installation of WP 5.1?
How would he access the program once it was installed?


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