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Article #47874Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work
From: Steven Blunt
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00
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. -- Steven Blunt spblunt@ozemail.com.au http://enterfornone.simplenet.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,8ab37de660e855e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: spblunt@ozemail.com.au (Steven Blunt) Subject: Re: WordPerfect V8 won't work Date: 1998/12/28 Message-ID: <36917f96.1983955@news.supernews.com> X-Deja-AN: 426315969 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.981224083720.1694A-100000@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> <763hlq$885$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Trace: remarQ2 914812588 207.214.7.222 (Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:36:28 PDT) Organization: A poorly installed net news site. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:36:28 PDT Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux