Using MS-DOS with the UNIX* system ?

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <rcbarn.672944319 at rw6.urc.tue.nl> rcbarn at urc.tue.nl writes:

>>Can you finally run Wordperfect 5.0/5.1 with all the files on the
>>unix file system?

>I think VP/ix is not to blame for this. WP however distinguishes between
>'real' drives and 'networked' devices; it won't work properly with the latter,
>presumably just because this enables WP Corp. (why do I address those people
>politely while they cripple people's minds with their trashware) to sell
>a version capable of running in a network as a separately priced (read: more
>expensive, but actually the same) product.

No, that's not the case at all.  WP is designed to work on a network
and does it very well.  In fact, I have a 386 running unix working as
file server for dos clients using AT&T's StarGroup software and everything
works fine from a DOS client.  However, if I run DOS under VP/ix on the
same machine, same files, same copy of WP, etc., it won't work.  It
does work under VP/ix if all the files are on a real DOS partition of
the hard drive.  WP 4.2 worked normally (but who wants to run that?).

I suspect it has something to do with VP/ix not properly translating a
0-length write from dos into a request to truncate the file at the
current position.

And by the way, I don't think you would be insulting WP if you had
used their nifty table editor in 5.1 (unless you are just mad about
how much time it took to learn how to do it the old ways).

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us