Using MS Office under Solaris

The following information was kindly provided by Hans Chapulsky. I tried it following his instructions more or less blindly, and it worked. - Ulrich Germann

Qestion: How can I use MS office un my Unix machine?

Answer:

You have to use the WABI (Windows Applications Binary Interface or
whatever) package.  I think it is only available under Solaris 2.x and
later.  If you do have a machine running Solaris, then you have do the
following to install WABI on your machine (`voodoo' is the name of my
machine):

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46 (voodoo) > mkdir -p /voodoo/wabi/wabi2.2

47 (voodoo) > cd /opt_nfs/local/wabi/wabi2.2/

48 (voodoo) > umask 022

49 (voodoo) > tar cf - . | (cd /voodoo/wabi/wabi2.2/; tar xf -)

50 (voodoo) > setenv WABIDIR /voodoo/wabi/wabi2.2/

51 (voodoo) > chmod -R u+w /voodoo/wabi/
chmod: WARNING: can't change wabihome

52 (voodoo) > /opt_nfs/SUNWwabi/bin/wabi
Wabi 2.2 Rev. A for SPARC-Solaris [ Apr 10 1996 02:31:41]
Copyright 1993-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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You have to create a local copy of the WABI stuff on your machine (as
I did in `/voodoo/wabi/wabi2.2/'), you can't use somebody else's.
When you run WABI it comes up with the Microsoft office suite that
contains Word, PowerPoint, etc.

Once it is up and running, add the definition of WABIDIR to your
.cshrc.

Check out

        http://www.sun.com/solaris/wabi/
        http://cdromcsc.com/wabi.html

for more info on WABI.

Hans