[Vwoolf] Major Authors on CD-ROM - Virginia Woolf

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

I share with Edward a love for WordPerfect. I still use it for my own work, and still find that it beats Word in many ways. The latest Windows compatible version is WordPerfect 2021. Straightforward documents without complex codes convert easily from WP to Word, and the standard version has a very efficient built-in “convert to pdf” function.

My blood pressure probably reached a high point some years back when Bill Gates said that Word replaced WP because the latter was very “clunky”. If any program is clunky, it’s Word.

Rant over.

Jeremy H

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+jeremy.hawthorn=ntnu.no at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2024 6:56 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu; Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson at columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Major Authors on CD-ROM - Virginia Woolf

This is fantastic news, Edward! I don't own a CD myself, but I know how frustrating it is for those who do. No doubt this represents a lot of work, so thank you. It would be interesting to see WordPerfect now: I thought it was wonderful at
This is fantastic news, Edward! I don't own a CD myself, but I know how frustrating it is for those who do. No doubt this represents a lot of work, so thank you.

It would be interesting to see WordPerfect now: I thought it was wonderful at the time, but that was long ago!

Sarah

Sarah M. Hall
Executive Council
Virginia Woolf Society of GB
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On Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 17:11:54 GMT, Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:


I've managed to set up an application that runs the Major Authors on
CD-ROM series on modern Windows and Macintosh computers.

If you own a copy of the Virginia Woolf CD in that series, and you want
to use it on a modern computer, please feel free to get in touch with me
privately.

This is based on work I did earlier to make it possible to run old
software (like WordPerfect for DOS and XyWrite for Windows) on modern
machines.

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