Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.0 under vpix Message-ID: <14623@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 3 Sep 89 15:30:17 GMT References: <597@bigbroth.UUCP> <9476@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 31 In article <9476@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >I got [WP 5.0] working under AT&T 3.2 by putting it on a DOS partition on >the hard disk - it has no problems accessing data files in the >unix filesystem. It will probably also work if you install it on >the VP/ix C: drive or set up another similar virtual disk. This usually indicates that the program is trying to do sector or FAT operations on a "drive" that is really the UNIX filesystem, disguised by REDIR. VP/ix will let you do any file operation you like on a redirected file, but when you start to peek underneath the rug you blow up. I had this problem with some Intel translator tools that were defaulting :WORK: to the current drive and directory. In some cases the solution can be as simple as putting a "C:" drive change command in your WORD.BAT file, to change the current drive and directory over to something DOS sector operations work on (a pseudodrive or mapped DOS partition) before invoking WORD.COM itself. > The >problem appears to with VP/ix file locking, since the files are >handled individually in the unix file system but the floppies and >DOS hard disk partitions are given to the first user that grabs >them. Of course only one user can run WP and in only one session >unless you make other copies. No, VP/ix gives the first requester Read/Write access and all subsequent requesters Read/Only access, except for serial ports. If you run into this, Word should complain about a write protected drive. -- Annex Canada now! We need the room, \) Tom Neff and who's going to stop us. (\ tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET