I knew this existed, but had never seen it available. I finally stumbled across it here: : https://fsck.technology/software/Silicon Graphics/Software/Corel WordPerfect 5.2 - 6.0 UNIX/
The relevant ISO is disc 6.
Retrospectively, it probably would have worked better if I had mounted the ISO (can we do that?) or just burned it to CD, but I simply extracted the contents to an NFS share and tried to run first the main installer (INSTALL.WP) and then the SGI-specific one (WP60/SGI/WPINSTAL).
Neither would work as-is. After a bit of investigation, the gist of the problem is that the install scripts expect to be running from CD, which means a case-insensitive filesystem. They also have to work with strict filename length constraints. Each folder contains a file YMTRANS.TBL which consists of a type (D/F), the name of the file on the CD, and the name it should be renamed to on the destination filesystem. If the name on the CD doesn't have an extension, it ends in "."
Example:
I wrote a short script to parse out the file, rename the files according the the translation table, and was then able to run `wpinstall`.
That's when I ran into problems locating the language files. Ultimately, I had only used the SGI directory, and it seems the relevant language files are located under the SNI_M (Siemens) directory. I copied over just the directories _P_US and _US, translated the file names, and was able to get it to install at that point.
The Corel license manager was the next hurdle. During install, I did not set it to run automatically. That may have been a mistake, as it took me a bit to track it down. The file format appears identical to FlexLM, but it seems to be its own thing.
I ended up using a little script to launch it:
Result:
The relevant ISO is disc 6.
Retrospectively, it probably would have worked better if I had mounted the ISO (can we do that?) or just burned it to CD, but I simply extracted the contents to an NFS share and tried to run first the main installer (INSTALL.WP) and then the SGI-specific one (WP60/SGI/WPINSTAL).
Neither would work as-is. After a bit of investigation, the gist of the problem is that the install scripts expect to be running from CD, which means a case-insensitive filesystem. They also have to work with strict filename length constraints. Each folder contains a file YMTRANS.TBL which consists of a type (D/F), the name of the file on the CD, and the name it should be renamed to on the destination filesystem. If the name on the CD doesn't have an extension, it ends in "."
Example:
Code:
D INSTALL install
F WPINSTAL. wpinstall
D _CE _CE
D _DE _DE
D _FLEX _FLEX
D _OZ _OZ
D _P _P
D _P_CE _P_CE
D _P_DE _P_DE
D _P_OZ _P_OZ
D _P_UK _P_UK
D _P_US _P_US
D _UK _UK
F _UPDT. .updt
D _US _US
D _W _W
D _X _XThat's when I ran into problems locating the language files. Ultimately, I had only used the SGI directory, and it seems the relevant language files are located under the SNI_M (Siemens) directory. I copied over just the directories _P_US and _US, translated the file names, and was able to get it to install at that point.
The Corel license manager was the next hurdle. During install, I did not set it to run automatically. That may have been a mistake, as it took me a bit to track it down. The file format appears identical to FlexLM, but it seems to be its own thing.
I ended up using a little script to launch it:
Code:
#!/usr/freeware/bin/bash
LM_RUNNING=`ps -ef | grep lmgrd | grep -v grep | wc -l`
if [ $LM_RUNNING -eq 0 ]; then
/opt/corel/wp/shbin10/lmgrd -c /opt/corel/wp/shlib10/license.dat
fi
/opt/corel/wp/wpbin/xwp $*
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