Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rc6.urc.tue.nl!rw6.urc.tue.nl!rcbarn From: rcbarn@rw6.urc.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Using MS-DOS with the UNIX* system ? Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 16:58:39 GMT Article-I.D.: rw6.rcbarn.672944319 References: <1991Apr11.152848.2637@drolet.CAM.ORG> <1991Apr25.145149.1925@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Apr25.173734.16964@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr26.042805.26981@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@rc6.urc.tue.nl Reply-To: rcbarn@urc.tue.nl Lines: 19 les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.173734.16964@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >>what is buggy about VP/ix? We have the latest release here, and to >>date everything we have tried with it worked just fine. > >Can you finally run Wordperfect 5.0/5.1 with all the files on the >unix file system? I think VP/ix is not to blame for this. WP however distinguishes between 'real' drives and 'networked' devices; it won't work properly with the latter, presumably just because this enables WP Corp. (why do I address those people politely while they cripple people's minds with their trashware) to sell a version capable of running in a network as a separately priced (read: more expensive, but actually the same) product. -- | Raymond X.T. Nijssen | Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | | raymond@es.ele.tue.nl | EH 7.13, PO 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands | | "Don't put that on the wall in a tax-payer supported museum!" Pat Buchanan |