6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) (02/02/91)
My 33 MHz 386 Gateway running DOS 4.01 had been chugging along just great until I started using Calera WordScan Plus to do some OCR work. WordScan itself works great, but I'm having a few problems with the ASCII files it creates. These text files are present on my directory, can be copied, and even accessed by Word Perfect, browse, Laplink, etc. But if I make a copy on a floppy and try to compare the two, I get a "Sharing Violation" message and COMP stops. Both files are, however, readable by all the software I've tested except... I use an old version of WordStar (3.3) because of its small size and my familiarity with it since CP/M days. When I try to call up one of these files in WordStar, it doesn't recognize the file as existing (even though it is present in the file list) and it starts a new file with the same name. I don't HAVE to use WordStar, but I do want to... and I want to be able to COMP copies of the files I create! Help!?! Thanks in advance. Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ William W. (Boo) Bushing | "Life is too important to be 6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet | taken seriously" 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | - Einstein Marine Biotechnology Lab Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^