From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 8:24:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8809B118A6 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Netplex) with ESMTP id AAA07202; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:23:51 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199902191623.AAA07202@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." Cc: Geoff Rehmet , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Star Office 5 woes In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:29:49 CST." <19990218102949.A38074@tar.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:23:51 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Richard Seaman, Jr." wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 05:14:08PM +0200, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > I've managed to get (what appears to be) a successful Star Office 5 > > installation by following the transcript on lt.tar.com. > > However, when I try to register it, I run into the problem that > > I get a BASIC runtime error in the registration "wizard". > > I believe a number of other ppl have run into this same problem. > > Does anyone know how to resolve this? > > 1) Make sure you have your Office50/bin directory in your PATH environment. > That seemed to fix it for me. I've tried that, and all permutations of it (beginning, middle and end of path). Not the slightest difference. > 2) Others have reported that reinstalling seems to work No difference. I tried zapping the ~/.user.rdb file that it uses in between reinstalling as well, just in case. No joy there either. > 3) Others have reported that executing the "fix install" or whatever > the command is called, has helped. I hadn't tried this before.. (Office50/bin/setup; select "repair installation"), no joy their either. > 4) I think there are people who have not been able to solve this > problem. I don't know anybody who's been able to get it to work, except for you. :-) I was toying with the idea of using the fax/email method of registering and typing in the codes, but I decided to have a look around first. I tried the example scripts, and a good number of them also had the same sort of runtime errors. About the only thing left I can think of is hardware/memory/cpu differences. I upgraded my motherboard (doubled ram to 128MB) and a 50% faster cpu (still a cyrix though. :-(..) and replaced the drives with a much faster set and still didn't get any joy. What I'm curious to know is, does it consistantly work for you when you reinstall it and reregister it? Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message