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Errors While Running WP Under Direct Access A |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: Running Direct Access 5.0 under DESQview 2.4 with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS and Lotus 2.3 causes the customer to receive the following messages when he tries to toggle between partitions 1 and 2 in DESQview: "Are Other Copies Of WordPerfect Running?" and "Put WP2 Disk In Drive." Steps to Duplicate: 1. Start DESQview using either DV or XDV. 2. Choose Open Program and select Direct Access (which is on the menu). 3. Once in Direct Access, choose the Lotus option from the Direct Access menu. 4. Once in Lotus, press the Alt key to get the DESQview menu, and then choose Open Program and select Direct Access again. 5. Once in the second copy of Direct Access, choose the WP item on the Direct Access menu. The WP item must be set up under Direct Access as a Custom Application (F5) containing the following commands): MODE UNDERLINE ON (for COMPAQs) MODE CO80 C:\WP51\WP/MONO CD\DA5 MENU. 6. Once in WP, press Alt and then 1 (this will switch you back to Lotus which is in DESQview partition one). 7. Type / and then Q and type Y to quit Lotus. The customer then gets the "Are Other Copies Running?" message. Solutions: The problem doesn't occur if Direct Access has WP set up as a regular application or if C:\WP51\WP/MONO is the only line in the Custom Application or if all the lines that were originally in the Custom Application are put into a batch file and WP is set up as "WordPerfect C WP51 BATCH NAME.BAT" (NAME=name of batch file containing the commands). NOTE: It is preferable to launch applications directly from DESQview rather than loading a menu program in each window because each window should be customized for the specific application. The DESQview window is not a generic DOS environment capable of running any DOS application. In the customer's situation, he should choose between Direct Access OR DESQview when beginning to run applications. He should use Direct Access when only running one application and then use DESQview when he needs to run multiple applications. This would eliminate the error messages entirely. |
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