Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-19 Thread ferret
Hm. The first time I tried to install I was #4 to download. It installed but wouldn't correctly run. It would complain about missing some file that it copied into one of its directories. Sorry, don't remember for sure which one. And then I tried to reinstall. I also upped my kernel from

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread debian
: Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd) On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, virtanen wrote: I tried to dowload it as well, but no success. Nothing happens, when I hit the dowload button. it is tellinf that are two downloads. In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Gary Singleton
For me somewhere between downloading the files on an NT system, burning them to CD over the network on a '95 system and then copying them to my Debian system the filenames became all caps. I had to rename all the files to lowercase i.e. GUI00 to gui00 (after they were gunzipped). Then I tar -xvf

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:09:36 -0600 From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
kenneth collaborated, The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign new to do if you say yes. If you say no, it untars, but still doesn't do anything. The executables end up in ./linux/bin I assume there's some option i'm missing to figure out to tell it to use

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable to read it. I kept trying and eventually got there. I assume it was a message saying that the maximum number of users had been reached. The site must be VERY busy as I'm getting a

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread John Stevenson
Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence first. Go here to start with: http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 then agree to the licence and things should be okay... In for a few hours of reading while I wait for the

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread John Stevenson
Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a number of other debian users) as to how good it is. John.

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a number of other debian users) as to how good it is.

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread virtanen
I've got it, but I haven't figured out quite how to install it. un-tgz'ing produces a handful of directories, a Readme, and a Runme. The Readme says to untar and ungzip everything, then run the Runme The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign new to do if

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Jeff . Lessem
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence first. Go here to start with: http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 Even easier, just go to

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, virtanen wrote: I tried to dowload it as well, but no success. Nothing happens, when I hit the dowload button. it is tellinf that are two downloads. In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable to read it. I kept trying and eventually got there.

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
peter piped, I got it, installed it, and it's quite nice. The installer wasn't exactly intuitive, but everything went in without a hitch. I downloaded it all in one piece (the 23 meg bad boy), and untarred it. and that was the problem. IN spite of the claim above the link, it gave me