From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 14:30:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26468 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pobox.com (mercury-1-87.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.87.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA26463 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Message-Id: <199812192230.OAA26463@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 17201 invoked from network); 19 Dec 1998 16:31:27 -0600 Received: from localhost (HELO pobox.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 1998 16:31:27 -0600 To: Mike Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brett Glass , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:14:47 PST." <199812192214.OAA00627@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:31:26 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199812192214.OAA00627@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith wrote: } > > I had mostly finished writing a web page detailing the installation } > > process in exquisite detail when I discovered that WP8 generates bad } > > HTML. I'm about resigned to simply cleaning it up manually and posting } > > it, maybe early next week. } > } > A port which just automates this would be a lot more useful in any } > case. } } 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. Can't you ask the user to tell your script which printer they want, then have your script pass that along to the installer? Or does the installer present some kind of menu to pick from or something hideous like that? -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message