taviso/wpunix
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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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comment by bananapub · 2026-04-27 · in L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility -
…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 -
…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 -
…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.
comment by ryao · 2025-09-11 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like) -
…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 -
…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 -
…not always. Running WordPerfect on modern Linux is done by shipping both of those components: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
comment by ryao · 2025-04-02 · in The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it -
…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) -
…The WordPerfect editor has been ported from an earlier Linux version to an up to date version: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
comment by shrubble · 2024-06-27 · in WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990) -
Available on Linux still... https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
comment by shrubble · 2024-05-08 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? -
…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
comment by roter · 2023-04-12 · in WordPerfect for Unix character terminals -
…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)
comment by taviso · 2023-04-12 · in WordGrinder: Terminal-based distraction free word processor -
If you're looking for a more full-featured terminal word processor, you could take a look at wpunix! https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
comment by taviso · 2023-04-11 · in WordGrinder: Terminal-based distraction free word processor -
…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