OT: SCO/WordPerfect

[AIT- Mark Comins]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Linda Hapner wrote:

> A few months ago I posted a question of getting WordPerfect 5.1 to work on SCO OS -- it was indicated that there was not a problem & some of you have done it.
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> The folks that sold me the computer installed wp for me -- and it does come up fine.  Once I got the system and am attaching printers, I'm finding some problems.  I can't print as a user, only as root.  Best that I can figure, the license daemons are not running, in fact the license.dat and two user daemons mentioned in the manual are not on the new system.  I tried just copying these files over, and it may have been the cause of an unexpected crash today....not sure.
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> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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> In anticipation that I may have to scrap this old program, what do SCO people use these days for word processing?  We don't do anything fancy -- merges from Filepro mostly.

Linda,

I would start by looking at the permissions in the ../wpbin/shbin
directory.  I show the following files having the suid permissions that
can be set using chmod 4111 filename

386cons
wpexc51
wpgraph
wpp

The wpexc51 appears to start when the first user enters Word Perfect after
a system reboot.  The WP program creates a directory under /tmp called
/tmp/wpc-systemname that contains temp files needed by WP for printing.  A
corrupt wpc-systemname direcory can cause printing problems.  I would
remove that directory when no one is in WP and the program will recreate
the directory the next time someone goes into WP.  Also make sure the /tmp
directory has the correct permissions to allow the wpc-systemname to work.

Does WP report the print job in the Control Port area of the program
<Shift><F7><8>?   WP might display an error as to why the print job is not
going.  I suspect the users can print a filename from a command prompt?

Mark Comins
mtcomins at aperion.com

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> Thanks
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> Linda Hapner
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