Word Perfect 5.0 killed my Xenix system!!
Tom Betz
tbetz at dasys1.UUCP
Thu Jan 26 12:40:24 AEST 1989
WARNING!! There may be some serious problems using WP 5.0 under VP/ix!
I just ran into this today, havn't come across a resolution yet, but be
forewarned: Having just installed VP/ix, I went to install WP 5.0. (11-15)
Since WP requires a C: drive, and I had set up VP/ix to provide a local
C: psuedo-drive, I installed WP on the C: psuedo-drive.
Called it from the command line, loaded just fine, looked great.
Recognized my VGA card and everything. <Shift>-F1 to setup. Selected
Keyboard layout. Selected 1, Select.
Dead freeze.
Nothing I did (tried to <Ctrl><Alt><Delete>, tried to multiscreen out,
tried to login: from the attached terminal) had any effect. Nothing.
Dead hang.
Finally, in desparation, turned off the power. Waited a while, turned
it back on.
Nothing. Blank screen. Didn't even give me the "Phoenix Bios..."
message, never got to the disk access part of the process.
I don't know what happened, I can't imagine what WP might have done or
tried to do. All I know is, it killed my Wyse 3216. And I'm not pleased.
So beware, folks. This could happen to you!
Just to find out, I went through the same keystroke sequence on the AT
clone where WP is currently installed. (It belongs to Accounting, who
wants the space it takes up, which is why I was installing it on the
Xenix machine in the first place) and it also caused a system hang (I
guess because I'm asking to select from a nonexistent list of Keyboard
Setups) but I was able to <Ctrl><Alt><Delete> successfully out of that
one. Grrrrrrr....
I'll report any solution I come up with.
I'm also open to >any< suggestions, at this point.
--
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