Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

[Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root]

Tim wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100
> MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun
> would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here).

Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-(

> It's a file ending in .bin  I can guess "binary" BUT double-clicking (or
> just clicking) gets me nowhere(!).  Nothing is associated w/ ".bin" files.

That should work - although it takes a while to start up.  It took best
part of a minute to do anything on this machine (Laptop, AMD k6/2 @
380Mhz, 64Mb RAM).

Other than that, try checking the permissions (chmod 755)

Regards,
Ozz.