VP/ix & Open Access & MS-Word (dos)

[Jan Mikkelsen]

In article <1990Nov09.204706.21983 at pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de> ralfi at pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) writes:
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>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.
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>Does anybody has similar problems and maybe even solutions...?
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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.

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Jan Mikkelsen
janm at dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz at metro.ucc.su.oz.au