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From: rsparrow@isis.cs.du.edu (Richard Allan Sparrow)
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Subject: Re: Chinese WP (cwp)
Keywords: cwp
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.164926.2680@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:49:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.042438.16287@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cheng@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  a    cheng) writes:
>
>Has anyone encountered the following problem with the cwp Chinese WP ?
>
>	The program was downloaded & installed. It ran OK on 2 separate
>    machines (both 286's). The files in the CWP directory was then
>	backed up onto a floppy disk (including the SYS directory). 
>    When that floppy was used to install another copy of the WP
>    on another machine, this message came up after the opening screen :
>
>		"Cannot find base font. Program halted."
>	
>	and the program aborts.
>	Thinking that the problem might be with that particular floppy, the 
>    "original" (the one used to successfully install the previous 2 working
>    versions) floppy was tried, and the same problem persists!

The problem arose from the copying process. There is a hidden
file in directory SYS called alpha.msg. When you do a normal
copy, that file is omitted. In order to copy that file, you must
use some utility to mark the file as visible.

                 Richard Sparrow
                (s082195@umrvma.umr.edu)