[Fwd: [newbie] Star Office Install]

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

Re-sent due to bounce (!)

> 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.