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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
- Message-ID: <1106@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 14:33:43 GMT
- References: <khj.716508452@beagle> <1992Sep15.100611.9712@informix.com>
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- Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
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- johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
-
- >In article <khj.716508452@beagle> khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker) writes:
- >> [MS word nervousness deleted]
- >>
- >>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) ...
- >>
-
- >Please post any emailed words of wisdom. I did manage to get Word 5.0
- >(what, laugh? _I_ originally picked FullWriteProfesional for A/UX use)
- >onto my A/UX 3.0 system, and do not remember if anything was odd or not (I
- >am using a personal system folder). On the other hand, I have not been able
- >to install Canvas 3.0 . Initially the problem was that it insisted on
- >installing into the root, but even access was grnated and installation was
- >progresing it gets some sort of file error (very repeatably, and I already
- >tried replacement disks) when decompressing some files. I do not have the
- >space in my Mac OS partition to install it (oops). So the 90 lb manual
- >(and sw) sit unused (the previous version still works).
- > -jrg
-
- I have seen some Installers die under 32-bit but not 24-bit... Try mac24
- when installing.
-
- The easiest way, unfortunately, is to install under the "real" MacOS, which
- is a pain. If, like you, you don't have the space, then installing as
- root under mac24 helps.
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