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From: jad@nyama.UUCP
Subject: Re: Using MS-DOS with the UNIX* system ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.192456.16280@nyama.uucp>
Sender: jad@nyama.uucp (Jose A. Dias)
Reply-To: jad@nyama.UUCP (Jose A. Dias)
Organization: Nyama Nyama Inc.
References: <1991Apr25.145149.1925@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Apr25.173734.16964@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr26.042805.26981@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 19:24:56 GMT

In <1991Apr26.042805.26981@chinet.chi.il.us>, 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?

As far as I understand this is not a bug, it's a feature of Wordperfect.
If you run the network version of Wordperfect, and you install it as a
network, then it will work.  Wordperfect tries to be very smart and if
it sees a non-local dos drive (ie. unix fs) it just dumps on you...

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Jose Dias		jad@nyama.UUCP		 Who me? I didn't say anything!
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Jose Dias		jad@nyama.UUCP		 Who me? I didn't say anything!