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Re: Wordperfect V8

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From: Louis Hissink
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
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David Hallam wrote:

> I was having similar problems. I solved them by pulling the large 23 Mb file
> from mirror.aarnet.edu.au.using a good old cute ftp under 95. (use mc under
> linux) it took 2.5 hours. My Word perfect is now up and running well.
> It was gunzipped then tar xf. then ./runme No probs.
> Getting the registration to work is a different problem. But I think its worth
> buying from what I've seen so far. I've given applix the boot!
> /dlh.
>

Shock Horror using winnows95 - but I jest, and I diduse Netscape to download the
large file, assumed it unziiped it, renamed it to remove the zip suffix, and it
worked.

Registration ? Ah, yeah, hassle.  Trick is to get the registration number, SAVE
the web page on the hard drive aas ASCII, then see precisely what was written.
Fonts are the cause of the hassle here in that lower case L and 1 are
problematical.  Took some time towork thatone out, I can tell you.

>
> Kevin Delany wrote:
>
> > If I down load the file using Communicator 4.05 in Windows 95 the file can't
> > be tar'ed or gunziped however when I downloaded in Linux using Communicator
> > 4.05 to the same vfat partition the files were uncompressed as you say but
> > could be tar'ed.  Go figure!
> > I've only down the one so far and it didn't care what case I used or what
> > case the *.gz file was in.
> > When I downloaded in Linux the file was created in UPPERCASE but "mv"
> > wouldn't allow me to change the case to lower case, but as I said it didn't
> > really matter anyway.
> > I don't think I like Download.com's layout.
> > I got all sorts of warnings when I tarred the first file maybe this won't
> > matter after I've done the others.   Something about Permissions.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kevin
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Date: 1999/01/08
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