Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!ames!decwrl!sun!cjl@uncecs.edu From: cjl@uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.0 Message-ID: <60622@sun.uucp> Date: 20 Jul 88 16:01:12 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 27 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com As to the Text I/O *AND* saving in older WP4.2 version, the following occurs (even according to WP Corp themselves): The data IS saved, but the directory (FAT?) is not updated until you LEAVE WP. If you save a text or 4.2 file to floppy for an associate while they stand over you then go back to your application while they scurry off with the disk (for the uninformed this is the WALKNET LAN protocol), they will look at a disk with ZERO bytes on that file. The data is there, but DOS won't find it. IF you had LEFT WP before removing disk then removed the disk, you would have your file intact... WP customer reps say that an update is coming "any day now" and all will get it at the same time. Personally, my company bought one update, found that bug, and decided that Manuscript wasn't that bad after all. -- Charles Lord cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet #include #include ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help