OT: SCO/WordPerfect Thanks

[Linda Hapner]

Thank you to everyone that responded.

Found the problem.....with the guidance of the great guys at Team 1, he
asked me to check the system mail for the user that couldn't print.  Turns
out it was a permission problem with the /lp/spooler/interfaces directory.
Though I'm not sure we have all the wordperfect problems solved, it is
letting users in and they can print.

Thanks again

Linda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AIT- Mark Comins" <mtcomins at delta.aperion.com>
To: "Linda Hapner" <fplist at hapner.com>
Cc: <Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: OT: SCO/WordPerfect


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> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Linda Hapner wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Linda Hapner
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