Whatever Happened To Textmode WordPerfect?

wedonneednoSTEEKINGguis asks: "After an hour of Google searching that turned up empty, I turn to the next best thing, Slashdot's hordes of trained monkeys. Does anyone know whatever happened to the console-mode (character-based, text-mode, whatever you want to call it) Word Perfect for Linux 5.1? I'm -positive- I recall it being included with the full GUI package in some Linux version or another, but naturally all traces of it have disappeared from Corel's FTP site, and I can't even find any references except for people talking about using emulation to run MS-DOS binaries. Word Perfect continues to be the WP of choice in our office (as well as many legal firms, so I've heard), and we don't need the features or want the overhead of a graphical version. Does anyone know where this beast might currently be located, or has it become unofficial abandonware?" Ah, I remember quite a few teenage summers where I worked in jobs that used the text version of WordPerfect. Of course, I never could remember keyboard command for "bold"...Alt-F5, or was it F6?

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included in WordPerfect 8 for UNIX

[Anonymous Coward]

It's included in Corel WordPerfect 8 for UNIX bundle. The side of the box reports support for HP UX 10.20 9000 700/800, IBM AIX 4.1.4 (PPC and RS6000), Linux, SCO OpenServer 5.0.0, Sun Solaris 2.5.1 (SPARC), and Sun Solaris 2.5.1 (x86). Text mode requirements: 2MB memory for the first user, 1MB for each add'l user; 31-40MB of hard disk space.

Was in Server edition of WP7 and WP8 Unix

[Alan Shutko]

The character mode client was included in the server editions of WP7/Unix and WP8/Unix. It was essentially WP5.1/Unix, updated to read files and try to do stuff with them. It might still be available, as Corel never did WP9 for anything but Linux. However, don't expect any support on it... the company who did the work on those versions is no longer working on it.