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Re: dumb WordPerfect question



"James R. Lunsford" wrote:

> Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> > > > I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8.
> > > > Now what?  What's the name of the executable and where is it?  Readme's
> > > > aren't helping.
> > >
> > > The exact same thing happened to me.  I gave up on it.
> >
> > There were some problems with the wordperfect installation instructions.
> > These instructions apply to the smaller, segmented files.
> >
> > o  What you need to do is copy all the files to an empty directory, and
> > make sure their filenames are lowercase.
> >
> > o  Unzip each of them.
> >
> > o  Untar the gui00 file only.
> >
> > o  Run the Runme executalble.
> >
> > o  Follow the instruction presented by the installation program
> >
> > HTH
> >
>
> I had the large 27(?) meg file.  I put it in /usr/local and untarred it, then
> installed it.
> It seemed to go well but the 2 times I tried it, no xwp file.
>

Have you look for it in /usr/local/wpbin directory?


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