From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Mike Easter wrote:   
   > philo wrote:   
   >> I'm always being ask to retrieve data from old computers and once in a   
   >> while  need to recover ancient Word Perfect documents which do not even   
   >> have a suffix.   
   >   
   > Really old WP docs from say 80s didn't have an extension.  Others before   
   > .wpd were .wp, .wp7, .wp6, .wp5, and .wp4.   
   >   
   > You can also dl an old WP for Win   
   > http://www.oldversion.com/windows/wordperfect-5-1   
   >   
   Further reading reveals:   
      
   ... there was a Corel Linux AND   
      
   ... there was a WP for Linux at v. 8 & 9.  A Corel linux distro included   
   the WP 8.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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