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From: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: SCO Reveals solution to the WP 5.0 / VP/ix problem!
Summary: Yes, you >can< install your WP 5.0 on a network drive!
Message-ID: <1055@upaya.lilink.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 90 00:23:44 GMT
Reply-To: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services
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Well, there >is< a solution to the refusal of WP 5.0 to run on a networked
drive!  At long last, SCO's DiSCOver magazine (March/April) sez: 
 
1) Format a B: Psuedo-drive. (Unfortunately, it's only 360K)
2) Install Word Perfect onto a WP50 directory on your Network (H:,U:) drive 
3) Move the WP.FIL file from that directory to the B: drive 
4) Invoke Word Perfect with 'wp/d=b'  
 
They left out a couple steps: 
 
5) Copy WPSMALL.DRS to B:WP.DRS (This allows Page Preview to work) 
6) Configure Word Perfect (with Shift-F1) so it can find all those files  
   on your Network drive. 
 
I even have both my authorized VP/ix users using the same set of Word Perfect
files now!  Freed up a whole lot of space. 
 
The only drawback is that Word Perfect's temporary files are limited to the 
41984 bytes or so left free on the B: drive once you have installed all this. 
 
Still, an occasional DISK FULL error within Word Perfect is a lot less 
objectionable than the 'no space on dev 1/42' that shuts down the whole 
system when the C: psuedo-drive outgrows available filesystem space.  

Now, if I could only format the B: drive to 1.2 meg...

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