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WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2022-07-18 · latest 2026-04-27

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  1. https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
  2. …but I bet I could put together a flake.nix for it but also: ooof, of COURSE it has encoding issues: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/64
    comment by pmarreck · 2025-11-10 · in WriterdeckOS
  3. …love to try if I could swap out the underlying Tilde editor with classic Wordperfect... seems like https://github.com/taviso/wpunix Might actually be the perfect fit for this (for me).
    comment by re_spond · 2025-11-09 · in WriterdeckOS
  4. …WordPerfect would work in this. Also, if sixel support were added, it could support graphics. See: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/Terminals If sixels somehow are already supported, then it does support graphics.
  5. …porting it to (modern) Linux (2022) https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_... https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
    comment by sillywalk · 2025-08-16 · in Office on HP-UX and Unix
  6. …scripts which patch the old WordPerfect binaries to run on modern distributions, for instance: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
    comment by quantummagic · 2025-08-16 · in Office on HP-UX and Unix
  7. …not always. Running WordPerfect on modern Linux is done by shipping both of those components: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
  8. …with look and feel very much like the DOS version. Tavis Ormandy got it working on Linux[0]. [0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix?tab=readme-ov-file
    comment by kjellsbells · 2025-04-01 · in A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)
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    WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals
    story by shakna · 2024-09-08 · 14 comments
  10. …The WordPerfect editor has been ported from an earlier Linux version to an up to date version: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
  11. Available on Linux still... https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
  12. …all sorts of things but eventually I am often required to get a document in DOCX. Love Pandoc. [0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/17
  13. …processor that are difficult in a text editor, and vice versa. I actually wrote a FAQ about this! https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/FAQ#q-why-not-just-use (Fwiw, I'm a daily vim user)
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    WordPerfect for Unix character terminals
    story by metadat · 2023-04-11 · 82 comments
  15. If you're looking for a more full-featured terminal word processor, you could take a look at wpunix! https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
  16. …for that < https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/symbols.html > and has existing code that seems relevant: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/blob/main/debug/idb2stabs.p... I've never used Ghidra in anger to know if it would work for their platform,…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-09-04 · in Reviving the Pakon film scanner
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    WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals
    story by AdmiralAsshat · 2022-07-18 · 0 comments
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    WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals
    story by naetius · 2022-07-18 · 2 comments