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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 10:15:51 GMT
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- khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker) writes:
-
- >I just tried installing a new version of Word (no flames, please!) on
- >my updated A/UX 3.0 system. Though I had my doubts ("which System
- >Folder will it try to access? My personal one, I hoped ..."), I went
- >ahead and "double clicked" on the "Word Installer" icon.
-
- >Though it began "almost normally", things got ugly fast. I decided to
- >abort the install and check others' experience and wisdom.
-
- >So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
- >(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
- >into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining
- >under A/UX? Most of these new apps no longer use a "drag this there,
- >and drag that there" installation approach. Instead, they use the
- >fancy Apple Installer program (Word uses v3.3) ...
-
- >I've got a "dinky" MacOS file system that I could temporarily install
- >things in. But, it would probably install resources in *its* System
- >file, not my personal one. It would be an error-prone process trying
- >to find what else it did (e.g., creation of Preferences, Translators,
- >... folders).
-
- This is a pain in many cases. However, most of the time the manual _will_
- have some guidelines concerning "manual installation".
-
- For MSWord, put MT Extra in your A/UX System file, MT Ext in Extensions
- and Embedding Prefs in Preferences. For Now Utilities, I'd suggest just using
- the utilities that you can drag copy (Like Alarms, or whatever it's called).
- The ones that use CE Toolbox don't seem to work under A/UX.
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