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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:22:29 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981219152107.06e09da0@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199812192214.OAA00627@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:28:35 PST."             <64928.914045315@zippy.cdrom.com>

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At 02:14 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
 
>Automating the WP install in a tidy fashion is close to impossible; I 
>tried this with WP7.  If you feed the installer keystrokes in order to 
>tell it where to put things, the user can't select a printer.  If you 
>don't, there's no way to force the install location, so you can't build 
>a PLIST.

What did OpenBSD do? I hear they have a port which fixes some serious
security problems. (If you install WP8 as root, or even RUN it as
root, you can open security holes; see Bugtraq.)

--Brett


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