lbert359@pallas.athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) (09/27/90)
When converting from Starlan 3.2 to 3.3a at one of my clients, WordPerfect
Office Mail version 2.0 went belly-up. Although WordPerfect claims
that 2.0 is qualified with all versions of Starlan, this particular program
simply will not work. When attempting to send mail from one user to another,
the mail program creates the appropriate hidden files in the mail\\bin and lin
directories, and updates the appropriate sys files. After creating the hidden
files, mail seem unable to find them (I guess they are *really* hidden :-).
WordPerfect has been aware of this problem for nearly a month, but efforts to
get a fix from them have produced no results. In fact, WordPerfect seems
totally uninterested in finding a resolution. The client is comfortable with
this particular mail package, so I would prefer not to convert them to
something else. On the other hand, if WordPerfect shows no inclination to
fix the problem, we may be forced to look at software alternatives.
I am interested in any words of wisdom from anyone who has experienced
*this* problem, and/or has dealt with WordPerfect on any significant problem.
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In article <418@pallas.athenanet.com> lbert359@athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) writes: > >When converting from Starlan 3.2 to 3.3a at one of my clients, WordPerfect >Office Mail version 2.0 went belly-up. Although WordPerfect claims >that 2.0 is qualified with all versions of Starlan, this particular program >simply will not work. When attempting to send mail from one user to another, >the mail program creates the appropriate hidden files in the mail\\bin and lin >directories, and updates the appropriate sys files. After creating the hidden >files, mail seem unable to find them (I guess they are *really* hidden :-). > AT&T's StarGROUP 3.3 is *just* Microsoft's LAN Manager 1.1. The server is running under Unix instead of OS/2, and uses the same Netbios interface as all the other Lan Manager vendors. You might see if Wordperfect has and fixes/patches for Lan Manager and apply those. -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."