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Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work

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From: Steven Blunt
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00
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It will also say file not found if you don't have the correct libc
installed.

On 26 Dec 1998 20:41:30 GMT, in aus.computers.linux unruh@physics.ubc.ca
(Bill Unruh) wrote:

>In <Pine.SOL.3.96.981224083720.1694A-100000@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> Brendan Crawford <c9706299@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> writes:
>
>>Hi,
>>	I just downloaded the WP8 free download (the big file), unzipped
>>it and untarred it and the install program worked first go, problem is
>>WordPerfect didn't. The install program said I should be able to go the
>>the directory wpbin and run xwp, but it just says command not found. I
>>checked the permissions and the file was set to executable.
>
>Command not found means that the system has looked through evey file in
>you path and not found any file bearing that name. Now, you probably
>tried to run the program as root and assumed, wrongly, that the system
>would look in the current directory. Root does not have the current
>directory in its path (for very valid security reasons. ) Thus, it
>searched the path and did not find any file with the name xwp.
>
>Solution.
>Give an explicit path to the file so the system does not have to search
>the path. Something as simple as ./xwp would do. Do not simply put .
>inot the path for root.
>
>Again. File not found, means file not found. It does not mean that it
>tried to run the program and ran into problems, it means that thfile is
>not found. 


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