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Article #47736Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work
From: Peter Caffin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
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Louis Hissink <hissinkl@bigpond.com> wrote: > Shane Bearham wrote in message <36816D15.582A71FE@xtremetech.com.au>... >>It sounds like you don't have current directory set in the search path like >>this (example only ) >> >>/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/bin:/usr/bin:.: Edit /etc/profile and add :.: if it's not there (as in the previous example). [...] > This seems to be a common problem - but I can't really think of a simple > solution using a USENET posting. Hopefully, the more it's Dejanewsed, the less queries :). > It is there in the supplied "books of > instructions", but how many of us really really read them. The biggest problems is that at first sight, it appears to most newbies to be a problem with their newly installed software (whatever that might be) and it's a little bit vague a problem to have really good search terms for the search engines. Oh well, answering these sorts of queries makes me feel better about posting my own and pestering you all :). Peter.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,8ab37de660e855e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "Peter Caffin" <no-spam-for-pc-ta@it.net.au> Subject: Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work Date: 1999/01/04 Message-ID: <915415825.373837@beldin.it.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 428491068 Cache-Post-Path: beldin.it.net.au!pc@belgarion.it.net.au References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.981224083720.1694A-100000@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> <36816D15.582A71FE@xtremetech.com.au> <36887f91.0@139.134.5.33> X-Complaints-To: abuse@omen.net.au X-Trace: demeter.omen.com.au 915415826 31629 203.8.116.4 (4 Jan 1999 02:10:26 GMT) Organization: Informed Technology User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.33 (i686)) NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jan 1999 02:10:26 GMT Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux