[SunRescue] StarOffice bin file... how to install?

[User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak]

> Per this Sun web page
> (http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/download.html#solaris ),
> simply just run it:
> 
>     ./so-5_2-ga-bin-solsparc-en.bin

I chmodded it to u+x and tried to run it from the shell, but I had
to dial up X first, and then click on it... egads... shades of gatesware.

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> 
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Man, would I feel like a stoopid newbie if I had to stoop that low....(:+{{

Thanks

Bob