![]() ![]() WordPerfect 7 for Unix is a strange combination of some of the features of classic (that is, before PC version 5) WordPerfect, such as using F1 to mean "repeat character" and F3 for Help, and some of the version 5 features, such as drop-down menus, although oddly accessed via Esc+ = rather than Alt or F10 or any DOS-standard keystroke. That's what you are going to get if you install Ormandy's revenant 1990s application. Desperate users even photocopied the thing, hand-trimmed and sellotaped together the result and stuck it on. ![]() This template acted as a sort of informal copy-protection: if you didn't have one, the app was almost inoperable. It was complicated, and even experienced users often referred to a keyboard template – a piece of cardboard you placed on your keyboard, which surrounded the function keys and showed reminders of what they all did. Each key had a separate meaning on its own, or with Shift, Alt or Ctrl, and with combinations of Shift and Alt and Ctrl. Up until WordPerfect 5, the program had a very idiosyncratic user interface which made heavy use of the function keys. WordPerfect 7 for UNIX, running perfectly happily in a Linux terminal in 2022
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