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Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work

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From: Peter Caffin
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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Subject: Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work
Date: 1999/01/04
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