From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 20 16:06:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10602 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fan.net.au (fan.net.au [203.20.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10597 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from q@fan.net.au) Received: from gromit.fan.net.au (gromit.fan.net.au [203.23.133.34]) by fan.net.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA11807; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:05:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:05:53 +1000 (EST) From: Q To: Peter Hawkins cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, custserv2@corel.ca Subject: Re: Howto: wordperfect 8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Peter Hawkins wrote: > > Unfortunately it does not install as documented but you can do it anyway as > follows: Yes it does... if you follow the instructions exactly. It should be noted that the installation instructions, specifically those at download.com are case sensitive. :) If you have a peek inside the Runme script it becomes evident what is happening. > 4. the distribution is *not* gzcompressed despite the extensions and the > documentation. Just use tar xvf to extract the kit. (if you get it as > seven separate parts, each is a separate tar file and untar them all > separately: > > foreach i (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) > tar xvf GUI0${i}.GZ > done They are compressed, netscape probably gunzipped it/them for you. The problem you do have however is the filenames must be in LOWER CASE!!!. You can correctly do the installation by doing something along these lines (assuming the files are still gzipped): gunzip GUI* foreach a (GUI*) tar -xvf $a mv $a `echo $a | awk '{ printf(tolower($0)) }'` end ./Runme > 5. The Runme installer fails so to install do the following in the directory > from which you did step 4 above: [snip] The Runme script will run fine with the tar files correctly named. > > 6. (a) Don't attempt to install non-us dictionaries or thesauruses - if you > can work out how let me know! They do not seem to be there for me. If you correctly run the installation script you will only be given the option of US dictionaries. > (b) ignore the warnings about files not being found There should be only one message that is displayed relating to trailing text in the OS version number (or at least there was on my 3.0 system). > (c) ignore the lack of printer drivers in the menu and continue without > installing a printer - it seems to install them all anyway (at least > it did for me) A correctly run installation will allow you to select a printer and bind it to a print spool. I think perhaps you should try your installation again.. maybe this time you will have more luck. Seeya...Q -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ / Quinton Dolan - q@fan.net.au __ __/ / / __/ / / Systems Administrator / __ / _/ / / Fast Access Network __/ __/ __/ ____/ / - / Gold Coast, QLD, Australia _______ / Ph: +61 7 5574 1050 \_\ SAGE-AU Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message