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- From: bha@vall.dsv.su.se (Bertil Hansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
- Message-ID: <1849@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:22:21 GMT
- References: <khj.716508452@beagle> <1992Sep15.100611.9712@informix.com>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
- Organization: Stockholm University, Sweden
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Sep15.100611.9712@informix.com> 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 .
-
- I have successfully (as far as I know) installed Word 5.0, Excel 4.0 and
- Canvas 3.0 on my Quadra 950. Right now, that box on repair, but I am fairly
- sure this is the way I had to work it out:
-
- Word 5.0
-
- Had to be installed by root. Refuses to be installed in the context of
- a user lacking Unix root access. I have to log in as root to use it,
- but OK, that's me. Microsoft Sweden gave me that tip. Program works OK.
-
- Excel 4.0
-
- Easy to install in the context of a non-privileged user.
-
- Canvas 3.0
-
- If I remember right, see "word 5.0" above.
-
-
- As I remember it without having the computer at hand, I sprinkled all the
- non-transient System folders with various Preferences from these programs
- "just in case".
-
-
-
- --Bertil Hansson <bha@dsv.su.se>!"The ideal situation is to have real computing
- Arbetsmilj|institutet, Solna !power close at hand - right at home. Something
- voice +46 8 730 90 82 !that dims streetlights and shrinks the picture
- fax +46 8 82 63 53 !on the neighbors TV when you crank it up"-anon
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