Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:22:29 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <4.1.19981219152107.06e09da0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199812192214.OAA00627@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:28:35 PST." <64928.914045315@zippy.cdrom.com>
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At 02:14 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Automating the WP install in a tidy fashion is close to impossible; I >tried this with WP7. If you feed the installer keystrokes in order to >tell it where to put things, the user can't select a printer. If you >don't, there's no way to force the install location, so you can't build >a PLIST. What did OpenBSD do? I hear they have a port which fixes some serious security problems. (If you install WP8 as root, or even RUN it as root, you can open security holes; see Bugtraq.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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