tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) (04/11/90)
Well, there >is< a solution to the refusal of WP 5.0 to run on a networked drive! At long last, SCO's DiSCOver magazine (March/April) sez: 1) Format a B: Psuedo-drive. (Unfortunately, it's only 360K) 2) Install Word Perfect onto a WP50 directory on your Network (H:,U:) drive 3) Move the WP.FIL file from that directory to the B: drive 4) Invoke Word Perfect with 'wp/d=b' They left out a couple steps: 5) Copy WPSMALL.DRS to B:WP.DRS (This allows Page Preview to work) 6) Configure Word Perfect (with Shift-F1) so it can find all those files on your Network drive. I even have both my authorized VP/ix users using the same set of Word Perfect files now! Freed up a whole lot of space. The only drawback is that Word Perfect's temporary files are limited to the 41984 bytes or so left free on the B: drive once you have installed all this. Still, an occasional DISK FULL error within Word Perfect is a lot less objectionable than the 'no space on dev 1/42' that shuts down the whole system when the C: psuedo-drive outgrows available filesystem space. Now, if I could only format the B: drive to 1.2 meg... -- "I don't run - I tend to black my eyes." - D.Parton | hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz ----------------------------------------------------| tbetz@upaya.lilink.com "One minute I'm in the pasture porkin' ponies, | Tom Betz - GBS the next I'm a can of Mighty Dog!" - Secretariat | (914) 375-1510
neal@mnopltd.UUCP (04/12/90)
->Well, there >is< a solution to the refusal of WP 5.0 to run on a networked
->drive! At long last, SCO's DiSCOver magazine (March/April) sez:
->
->1) Format a B: Psuedo-drive. (Unfortunately, it's only 360K)
->2) Install Word Perfect onto a WP50 directory on your Network (H:,U:) drive
->3) Move the WP.FIL file from that directory to the B: drive
->4) Invoke Word Perfect with 'wp/d=b'
Beware, this is may be only half an answer. I suspect this will work on
simple files but will puke up on your printer on complex documents unless those
documents are on a real DOS partition.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------rich@aggie.UUCP (Rich Seligson) (05/03/90)
In article <2445@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes: >bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) writes: >>We have been running WordPerfect 5.0 under SCO Xenix for several >>months now and very successfully (we were a BETA test site). > >I talked to our WordPerfect representative last Friday, and I don't blame >people for trying to get it to run under VP/ix since the Xenix version of 5.0 >wasn't available until recently. If people want the features of 5.0 under >Xenix and they have VP/ix, what do you think they're going to do? ...[stuff deleted]... > ... People are going to run the latest version of WordPerfect >under VP/ix or DOSMerge until the version for their *nix platform is >available. ... I wholeheartedly agree. For example, WP 5.1 is now available for DOS. This version has some significant (to me) improvements over 5.0. Any word on when this might be out for Unix? I don't use VP/ix because I enjoy working with DOS, it just happens to be the environment that has the software I need. Rich P.S. I haven't seen WordPerfect under Unix. Does it look as good as the DOS version? How is the page preview? I assume that can't be done on a text-only terminal, but on a "workstation" with graphics... email any opinions and info (thanks!) rich@cyanamid.com or ...rutgers!aggie!rich
bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) (05/07/90)
In article <407@aggie.UUCP> rich@aggie.cyanamid.com (Rich Seligson) writes: >In article <2445@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes: >>bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) writes: >>>We have been running WordPerfect 5.0 under SCO Xenix for several >>>months now and very successfully (we were a BETA test site). >> ... People are going to run the latest version of WordPerfect >>under VP/ix or DOSMerge until the version for their *nix platform is >>available. ... >P.S. I haven't seen WordPerfect under Unix. Does it look as good as > the DOS version? How is the page preview? I assume that can't > be done on a text-only terminal, but on a "workstation" with > graphics... email any opinions and info (thanks!) >rich@cyanamid.com or ...rutgers!aggie!rich Rich: WordPerfect 5.0 does look basically just like the Messy-DOS version. It does have a page preview. And it does work on most text terminals. And on terminals like the Wyse 60, it does not do a bad job at all, it is limited by the graphics character ability of the terminal it is working on, not WP 5.0. On a console or workstation, you are basically the same as on a DOS system. The only areas that deviate much are the printer sections to handle the Xenix/Unix printer methods. And they have really cleaned this area up from their previous version of 4.2. It is definitely worth a look at, as it is native code, and not running thru VP/ix. I have not heard anything yet on WP 5.1. (although I did hear that WPCorp was going to wait 18 months to come out with 5.2 due to all the complaints they got about having two releases so close together). ** We are not related to WPCorp other than reselling their product and also participating in their BETA test program. ** -- >...............................................................< >.. Computer Consulting Service .. Bob Willey, CDP ..< >.. P.O. Drawer 1690 .. uunet!consult!bob ..< >.. Easton, Maryland 21601 .. (301) 820-4670 ..<