On 11/29/24 15:19, Michael Ewan wrote:
You have to run it as a shell script, the meat of the data is encoded
after the __ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__ line, the script decodes it and sends it
to tar to be extracted. Then it apparently runs the installer for you.
I sometimes over complicate things.
Here's my result:
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rsteff@ENU-2:~/Downloads/Scribe$ ./scribe
Please wait while installer is initialising.....
Release Date: Fri Jan 30 00:51:58 IST 2009
Express Scribe 4.31
Password:
su: Authentication failure
rsteff@ENU-2:~/Downloads/Scribe$
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The password is not my usual password. I may need to get one from NCH,
the software manufacturer. But this is from 2009, so I don't know if
they still support it. I'll try contacting them.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens