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Re: dumb WordPerfect question



Mark Wagnon wrote:

> > > I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8.
> > > Now what?  What's the name of the executable and where is it?  Readme's
> > > aren't helping.
> >
> > The exact same thing happened to me.  I gave up on it.
>
> There were some problems with the wordperfect installation instructions.
> These instructions apply to the smaller, segmented files.
>
> o  What you need to do is copy all the files to an empty directory, and
> make sure their filenames are lowercase.
>
> o  Unzip each of them.
>
> o  Untar the gui00 file only.
>
> o  Run the Runme executalble.
>
> o  Follow the instruction presented by the installation program
>
> HTH
>

I had the large 27(?) meg file.  I put it in /usr/local and untarred it, then
installed it.
It seemed to go well but the 2 times I tried it, no xwp file.

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