km@cs.pitt.edu (11/22/90)
Microsoft Word 5.0 under vp/ix consistently gives the error "Word Disk Full" when run from the "Z" drive, unless the program is set to run with a floppy as the default drive. Has anyone else had experience with this problem and how to solve it? The manuals are of no help and everything else works fine. Ken Mitchum km@cs.pitt.edu
fuhrman@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Phil Fuhrman) (12/04/90)
Turns out that lots of people have run into the same problem, including myself. It seems to be a problem with using Word on networked drives in "native" DOS as well. I understand that Microsoft has a patch available to fix the problem. Check with their Tech Support department. Phil Fuhrman Analytical Products Hewlett-Packard Co.
mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) (12/06/90)
This may be part of a problem I already fixed in a redirector I am working on. ALL the microsoft windows/runtime windows programs depend upon 100 being returned from the get current directory call. (At least that's what I can recall. I will have to check at work.) There are lots of programs out there which INCORRECTLY depend upon the results of a DOS INT 21. Get attribute is another where Windows 3.0 FILE MANAGER wants the attirbutes in AX and CX when AX is the only documented return.
vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) (12/09/90)
In article <17550001@hpavla.avo.hp.com>, fuhrman@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Phil Fuhrman) writes: > Turns out that lots of people have run into the same problem, including > myself. It seems to be a problem with using Word on networked drives in > "native" DOS as well. I understand that Microsoft has a patch available > to fix the problem. Check with their Tech Support department. Guess what? Word 5.5 has the same problem over VP/ix as Word 5.0 had. After a little long distance, indirect discussion, Microsoft is working on the problem. I am amazed that Microsoft listened to my wife's description of my understanding of the problem and went from "we fixed that old problem" to calling back a few times and finally saying "oops, we'll work on it and send you a fix". My wife is not very knowledgable or forceful about such subjects, and Microsoft has not received much money from me. Word 5.0 was a fraction of the cost of the 386 UNIX's I've purchased, and the 5.5 update was only about $60 and included new manuals. Microsoft took 2-3 weeks to get us the patch diskette for Word 5.0, but sent it free by FedEx. It's boggling to compare Microsoft's response with the "support" I've had from over the years from the 386 UNIX vendors. (You remember the lies: "that's not a problem" or "we tried that and it works" or "we'll get back to you".) I've paid about as much for a year of "UNIX support" as the retail dealer got for Word 5.0. Maybe those DOS guys know something we in the UNIX trade could use. Vernon Schryver, vjs@calcite.uucp