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Shelling To DOS Gives Blank Screen
DocumentID: 652305
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:15 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: A WordPerfect user pressed Ctrl-F1 to shell out to a DOS prompt. After pressing Ctrl-F1 the user received a blank screen. The customer was using a third party product named LAN Assist to route print jobs over a network to a local printer. In the LAN Assist program the parameter +N had been set. (The +N was used on some older machines to alleviate a problem with snowy screens.) Removing the +N parameter from LAN Assist corrected the problem; the user was able to properly shell to a DOS prompt.

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