Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:54:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812192254.OAA00957@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:31:26 CST." <199812192230.OAA26463@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > 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? You got it. Worse still, the list of printers supported is buried inside the install executable, so you'd have to extract that list first, preset it to the user, then generate a pile of cursor movements and all sorts of crap. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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