ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) (11/10/90)
We are running vp/ix on a customer system. when running ms-word or open access under vp/ix, everything's fine except when we are trying to create new files. We get the message 'disk full' or something like this. Of course, there is enough room on the disk, and the used directory is writeable for the vp/ix user. Does anybody has similar problems and maybe even solutions...? -- | Programmentwicklung fuer Microcomputer | Ralf U. Holighaus | | PO-Box 810165 Vaihinger Strasse 49 | >> PEM Support << | | D-7000 Stuttgart 80 West Germany | holighaus@PEM-Stuttgart.de | | VOICE: x49-711-713045 FAX: x49-7021-713047 | ..!unido!pemstgt!ralfi |
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (11/12/90)
The bogus "disk full" problem is a well-known bug in Word 5.0. Apparently
it appears with many network file systems. (Under vp/ix, native unix files
appear to DOS to be connected via a very short network.) Microsoft has a
patch disk available for the asking that disables the disk space check.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!esegue!johnljanm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen) (11/13/90)
In article <1990Nov09.204706.21983@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de> ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) writes: > ... > >We get the message 'disk full' or something like this. Of course, there >is enough room on the disk, and the used directory is writeable for the >vp/ix user. > >Does anybody has similar problems and maybe even solutions...? >-- >| Programmentwicklung fuer Microcomputer | Ralf U. Holighaus | >| PO-Box 810165 Vaihinger Strasse 49 | >> PEM Support << | >| D-7000 Stuttgart 80 West Germany | holighaus@PEM-Stuttgart.de | >| VOICE: x49-711-713045 FAX: x49-7021-713047 | ..!unido!pemstgt!ralfi | This is fixed in the latest release of VP/ix. The problem is that MS-Word uses a DOS function call to find the amount of free space on a file system; this was not working correctly on VP/ix. -- Jan Mikkelsen janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au