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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:19:06 -0600
From:      Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Wiliam Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0
Message-ID:  <19990102111905.I2862@tar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901021117300.391-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 11:18:26AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901012002090.12539-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901021117300.391-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 11:18:26AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:

> > I finally got it up and running too, but I had to do a lot voodoo :] It
> > won't work, as it errs in the middle of its BASIC registration script. Does
> > anyone have a registration code they can share, or some other way to get one?
> 
> I had that.  From the newsgroups, this is a common failure.  Try running
> setup again and telling it to repair your installation.  Failing that, try
> uninstalling and reinstalling.  Worked for me, YMMV.

When I had problems with registration, I unistalled, reinstalled, and then
set the default PATH to include the Office50/bin directory.  I had assumed
that the reason it worked the second time was that I managed to set the
PATH variable.  But, maybe the deinstall/reinstall did something too.

I'm also interested in a message you posted a few days ago, that SO50 runs
on an SMP machine without threads.  I guess I (and others) had assumed the
reason SO50 hadn't worked before  was because it needed a functioning
linux_clone and the rest of the linux threads emulation to work.  Perhaps 
this wasn't true.  In working on the linux threads emulation, and also
on SO50, a bug in linux_pipe was discovered and fixed.  Perhaps this was
all that kept SO50 from running?  Maybe it just needs the fixed linux_pipe
and thats all?  

I haven't tried SO50 without the linux threads patches, but it might
be interesting for someone to try it with the linux_pipe patches 
(included by default in -current sources after about Dec 10) but without
any of the other linux threads patches enabled (ie. compiled without
COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS).  Presumably you would still need the proc
cmdline patches.

-- 
Richard Seamman, Jr.          email: dick@tar.com
5182 N. Maple Lane            phone: 414-367-5450
Chenequa WI 53058             fax:   414-367-5852

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