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Re: WordPerfect 8 - problem with .GZ files (?)

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From: jason andrade
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
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Triet Hoai Lai <thlai@mail.usyd.edu.au> writes:

>Hi,

>The 7 archives are not gziped files. Just untar them (tar xf). Also,
>before run the "Runme" script, make sure all archives are in current
>directory and got the same names listed in the "Moves" file. Because of
>security reason, you should login as normal user to do the installation.
>(ref. http://lwn.net/1998/1224/a/wp8sec.html). Good luck.

>Shane Baker wrote:
>> 
>> Gidday
>> 
>> Yesterday, I downloaded all 23 meg of WP 8 and tried ungzipping it.  GUNZIP
>> reported a dud archive file.
>> 
>> Ok, I thought - that can happen.  I'll download in smaller chunks.
>> 
>> I downloaded the first 4 of 7 archives - with the same result.
>> 
>> Anyone else having problems?  I followed the syntax on Corel's WWW site.

just to let people know, we've mirrored the linux release at

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/wordperfect/

we're also a simtel, cnet mirror, where you can find the original
split release, but download.com isn't pointing at mirror sites
for this yet :-(

cheers,

-jason
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 - problem with .GZ files (?)
Date: 1999/01/04
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