Re: G2 Player expires?

[David Morrison <ddm beachnet com>]

I followed the link from Linux Today and downloaded it.
Here are the instructions from real.com on what to do:
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Rename the uncompressed file.
Type mv G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386_rpm
        G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386.rpm
Type rpm -i G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386.rpm
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I don't think they mean it, since both parts of the mv are identical, and the
downloaded file is:
G2player-6.0-0.99092901.i386_rpm
I wonder  1) what is the right thing to do, and 2) what is going on here.

They have a new version, and want to pretend that it is the old version
so the expiration date will be sometime in the future?

I guess I figured out what to do. The new player works. Seems slower.
But listening to realplayer will turn your mind to mush anyway.

          Dave Morrison

On 30-Sep-99 K. Holcomb wrote:
>>> 
> 
>       According to
>         linuxtoday.com/stories/10586.html
> 
>       it is OK now.  Apparently they fixed the binary first and didn't
>       get the new rpm version up till recently.  The new one seems to
>       expire in March 2000 but they told the author of the Linux Today item
>       that they would have a beta version available around the end of this
>       year.  No plugin yet but again, they promise they are working on it.
> 
> 
>>> You're not the only one!
>>> <snip>