keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) (08/21/90)
Here are a couple of VP/ix problems that I've recently come across. Both have been mentioned before in this group, but I don't recall seeing a response to either. 1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the current directory. On the other hand, this message does not appear (and WP works fine) if WP is installed either onto the native DOS partition or onto C:. My local ISC supplier says they contacted ISC in the US whose response was "It works fine over here ..." - very satisfying. 2. When using MKS vi to edit a file under VP/ix, if the file is decreased in size it is not truncated correctly - there is extra garbage at the end of the file. I've seen references to similar behaviour using JOVE. Does anyone know if there is anyway around either of these problems, or if one or both are fixed in 2.2. Currently I'm at 2.0.2 and am not in a hurry to upgrade (the price in Australia for the upgrade is $A1395.00 - Application developer, 1-2 users), but fixes to these problems might help me change my mind. -- Keith Brinck e-mail: keith@bain3.oz.au Bain Capital Markets Ltd 225 George St, Sydney 2000, Australia.
betz@marob.masa.com (Tom Betz) (08/21/90)
Quoth keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) in <831@bain3.oz>: |Here are a couple of VP/ix problems that I've recently come across. Both |have been mentioned before in this group, but I don't recall seeing a |response to either. | |1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the | message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to | run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the | current directory. On the other hand, this message does not appear | (and WP works fine) if WP is installed either onto the native DOS | partition or onto C:. My local ISC supplier says they contacted ISC in | the US whose response was "It works fine over here ..." - very satisfying. If you have some RAM to spare (one or two MB) and an EMS.SYS that works with your VP/ix, put device=ems.sys MD Snnn into your CONFIG.SYS, where nnn is the number of RAM blocks you want to set up for EMS. (I have 64 blocks set up, or 1024K; I believe that you may use up to 2 MB of RAM) Then get hold of a good EMS RAM disk (I use PC Magazine's XPANDISK, freeware and very good) and install it in your EMS space. (Your VDISK.SYS will probably NOT work for this purpose... I know mine didn't.) Then set up a batch file (or a few lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT) that puts the required minimum of files (WP.FIL, WP.SET, WP.DRS, WP{WP}.SET, WPHELP.FIL, and WPHELP2.FIL for our 5.0 setup) into the root directory of your RAM disk. Then set up your WP batch file to start up WP against the RAM drive, instead of the H: or Z: or other network drives. You'll probably also want it to copy WP{WP}.SET back to wherever you keep it after you leave WP, so any changes you have made to the configuration during a session will be kept. I keep my files in a PKZIP archive, so as to take up a minimum of disk space. You'll have to edit your configuration with Shift-F1 so WP can find the auxiliary files, but unless things have changed horribly between 5.0 and 5.1, this should work for you. It's the only way I was able to get 5.0 to work satisfactorily at all on our XENIX system's VP/ix. I'll be happy to mail you a uuencoded copy of the XPANDISK RAM disk. It's not very large. -- -----------------------------------------------------| hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz "Ever since the fateful day when Al heard about | that `Follow Your Bliss' thing, it's been just | Tom Betz - GBS cannoli, cannoli, and more cannoli." - Peter Hannah | (914) 375-1510
john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (08/22/90)
In article <831@bain3.oz> keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) writes: >1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the > message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to > run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the > current directory. There's a lengthy article on installing WordPerfect 5.x under VP/ix in the June 1990 Computer Shopper. It appears there is no way to get it running other than by installing it on a real DOS partition, or on the C: "drive." It is blamed on a bug in the redirector. -- John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)
karl@naitc.uucp (Karl Denninger) (08/22/90)
In article <2038@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: >In article <831@bain3.oz> keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) writes: >>1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the >> message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to >> run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the >> current directory. > >There's a lengthy article on installing WordPerfect 5.x under VP/ix >in the June 1990 Computer Shopper. It appears there is no way to get >it running other than by installing it on a real DOS partition, or on >the C: "drive." It is blamed on a bug in the redirector. ISC claims that's fixed in the new VP/IX that comes with 2.2, but I haven't verified it (yet). Sometime soon I'm sure that I'll get around to it. -- -- Karl Denninger AC Nielsen kdenning@ksun.naitc.com (708) 317-3285 Disclaimer: Contents represent opinions of the author; I do not speak for AC Nielsen on Usenet.
chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) (08/24/90)
In article <831@bain3.oz>, keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) writes: > 1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the > message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to > run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the > current directory. On the other hand, this message does not appear > (and WP works fine) if WP is installed either onto the native DOS > partition or onto C:. My local ISC supplier says they contacted ISC in > the US whose response was "It works fine over here ..." - very satisfying. > In your autoexec.bat file include the line: dosmount d:/usr/bin/wp51 (or wherever you want WP to go) When you run vpix, the D: is the directory /usr/bin/wp51. Now install WP 5.1 to the D: drive and the installation with put it in /usr/bin/wp51. Now to run WP just go to the D: drive and run it. It works great!! -- Jim Chandler asuvax!xroads!beagle!chandler chandler@beagle.UUCP
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (08/24/90)
In article <2038@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: > >There's a lengthy article on installing WordPerfect 5.x under VP/ix >in the June 1990 Computer Shopper. It appears there is no way to get >it running other than by installing it on a real DOS partition, or on >the C: "drive." It is blamed on a bug in the redirector. Eeeeek! This is BAD news! What do those of us who are running ESIX do? (We can't access a "real" dos partition from VP/ix). Actually, I guess i could install it on the C: drive. I'm wondering if the version of VP/ix (1.2?) that I have at home is like the one at work on the Sun/386i's, where the C: drive "grows" as needed to accomodate new stuff... Bill -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com Other: heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)
larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (08/26/90)
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes: >I'm wondering if the version of VP/ix (1.2?) that I have at home >is like the one at work on the Sun/386i's, where the C: drive >"grows" as needed to accomodate new stuff... Yes - but I haven't found a way to decrease the size of the C drive after removing files -- I ended up getting WP for Unix. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry -or- larry@nstar Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 lines/PEP/HST/Hayes-V)
john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (08/26/90)
In article <205@beagle.uucp> chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) writes: >In your autoexec.bat file include the line: >dosmount d:/usr/bin/wp51 (or wherever you want WP to go) >When you run vpix, the D: is the directory /usr/bin/wp51. Now install WP 5.1 >to the D: drive and the installation with put it in /usr/bin/wp51. I tried this back a month or so ago when I was trying to get 5.1 running under VP/ix 1.1 on ESIX D (although I used drive W: rather than D:). It didn't work. What version of VP/ix does this work on? -- John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)
chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) (08/26/90)
In article <2049@jwt.UUCP>, john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: > In article <205@beagle.uucp> chandler@beagle.uucp (Jim Chandler) writes: > than D:). It didn't work. What version of VP/ix does this work on? > -- > John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john) This works under VPix 1.2 and ESIX Rev. D. -- Jim Chandler asuvax!xroads!beagle!chandler chandler@beagle.UUCP
tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) (08/27/90)
In article <831@bain3.oz>, keith@bain3.oz (Keith Brinck) writes: > > 1. Installing Word Perfect 5.1 anywhere in the UNIX file system causes the > message "wp.fil not found" (or words to that effect) when attempting to > run it, despite the fact that wp.fil is correctly situated in the > current directory. On the other hand, this message does not appear > (and WP works fine) if WP is installed either onto the native DOS > partition or onto C:. My local ISC supplier says they contacted ISC in > the US whose response was "It works fine over here ..." - very satisfying. I have *never* got WP5* to work on the unix drive directly. It must be installed on C: (Psuedo) or DOS partition. NOTE: it only need be installed there not used there, simply install on a psuedo drive like C: and PATH it in. It works fine like that. -- Tim Brown | Computer Connection | towers!comcon!tim |
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (08/27/90)
In article <1990Aug25.233211.10401@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes: >>I'm wondering if the version of VP/ix (1.2?) that I have at home >>is like the one at work on the Sun/386i's, where the C: drive >>"grows" as needed to accomodate new stuff... > >Yes - but I haven't found a way to decrease the size of the >C drive after removing files -- Jeez, I just posted this, doesn't anyone read the articles? 1. Create a new pseudo-volume by copying 'cdisk' to something like 'NEWD:'. 2. Edit your 'vpix.cnf' to point C: to your new D pseudo-volume, and D: to your old one. 3. Boot Simul-Task with this configuration -- if your old D: was not bootable, you may need to boot from floppy with 'dos -b'. 4. Use XCOPY to copy all the files from D: to C:. 5. Quit DOS and rename NEWD: to D:, deleting the old one. 6. Re-edit your 'vpix.cnf' to restore the settings for C: and D:. -- For the curious: +---+ Tom Neff Here's what RS-232 pins do! ==|:::|== tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM -- Inmac +---+ uunet!bfmny0!tneff
mars@ixos.UUCP (mars) (08/29/90)
Now i remember that there was an article on exactly that subject in the May, June or July issue of 'Computer Shopper'. Some guy described how he got WP 5.1 running under VP/ix. Martin Stein
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (08/29/90)
In article <1990Aug25.233211.10401@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: > >Yes - but I haven't found a way to decrease the size of the >C drive after removing files -- > On the VP/ix implementation on the Sun/386i, you can do a dos -update ... but this builds a whole C: drive, destroying anything that's on the old one. >I ended up getting WP for Unix. I like my dos version of WP, so I will do whatever I can to make it work under VP/ix. -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com Other: heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)