glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov (Rich Glosson) (03/17/91)
What file do you need to change to tell WordPerfect 5.0 that you want to move it to another drive, like D, or even if you want to install it on another drive. It seems to me that it expects to be loaded on drive C. I tried to move an existing copy from C:\WP50 to D:\WP50 and when I invoked it from D, it couldn't find several files that were actually there. Thanks for any help! glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov
teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) (03/18/91)
In <GLOSSON.91Mar16234749@mdtf12.fnal.gov> glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov (Rich Glosson) writes: >What file do you need to change to tell WordPerfect 5.0 that you want to >move it to another drive, like D, or even if you want to install it on >another drive. It seems to me that it expects to be loaded on drive C. >I tried to move an existing copy from C:\WP50 to D:\WP50 and when I invoked >it from D, it couldn't find several files that were actually there. What you have to do is the following: From the basic install menu of the WP install program, you have to choose the CUSTOM option, rather than the BASIC one. Once you are in the CUSTOM option, you can choose whatever you like, ie where do the sources (installation floppies) reside (ie A: or B) and where do you want to put it to (ie, disk C: or D:, or a different name for the directory, etc...). Another option is running setup from WP itself (Shift-F1), after you have moved already installed version to a different disk (or directory), and go into the Location of Files menu, and change all the occurences of previous paths, into the new ones (although I haven't tried that, so I'm not 100% sure that it will work...). In any case, you would have to do all this WHILE IN the WP directory... Hope this helps. --Nino -- Janet: nino@uk.ac.ucl.sm.mph \ Nino Margetic Earn/Bitnet: nino@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk \ Dept. of Medical Physics Internet: nino%mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk\ University College London Bang-path: ....!mcvax!ukc!ucl-mph!nino \ Tel:+44-71-380-9300/x5313
) (03/18/91)
In article <GLOSSON.91Mar16234749@mdtf12.fnal.gov> glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov (Rich Glosson) writes: >What file do you need to change to tell WordPerfect 5.0 that you want to >move it to another drive, like D, or even if you want to install it on >another drive. It seems to me that it expects to be loaded on drive C. >I tried to move an existing copy from C:\WP50 to D:\WP50 and when I invoked >it from D, it couldn't find several files that were actually there. > >Thanks for any help! > >glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov You must run setup within WP and edit location of aux. files. If you moved everything to D:, you MUST edit by hitting Shift-F1. WP should load initially, but it will probably warn you of the fact that it cannot located some of the files it needs. By editing location of aux. files, you will be able to tell WP where your speller, print (.prs), thesaurus, etc., are located. This is what I do, and have done when I got another hard drive (for a friend's system) and moved WP to drive E:. If WP does not load at all (which is unlikely), then I don't know what to tell you. Good luck, -- Robert W. Kim rkim@ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego. kimbob@ucsd.edu Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat.
mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) (03/18/91)
I had the same problem. Rather than go through the whole installation
process again from the beginning (my problem having been that partial
installations of printer drivers and whatnot were going to the wrong
drive) I poked around and discovered the file-directory defaults in the
file WP{WP}.SET; I just hex-edited the file to reflect the proper drive.
(This was after I had changed all the file defaults for the speller, etc.,
from the WP setup menu.)
Good luck!
Michael Flory (mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu)dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) (03/18/91)
In article <GLOSSON.91Mar16234749@mdtf12.fnal.gov> glosson@mdtf12.fnal.gov (Rich Glosson) writes: >What file do you need to change to tell WordPerfect 5.0 that you want to >move it to another drive, like D, or even if you want to install it on >another drive. It seems to me that it expects to be loaded on drive C. >I tried to move an existing copy from C:\WP50 to D:\WP50 and when I invoked >it from D, it couldn't find several files that were actually there. You can do this in the setup menu (Shift-F1)!! // Gunnar =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================