Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:11:19 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WP8 won't open files on FAT partitions Message-ID: <ML-3.4.939154279.5137.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19991005203728.F315@marder-1>
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On 5-Oct-99 at 13:04, Mark Ovens (mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) wrote: > I've discovered a problem with Wordperfect 8. It gives the error > "An error occurred opening the file" when trying to open a file > (text, RTF, Word 2/95/97) residing on a FAT partition. > > If I copy the same file to a UFS (or NTFS for that matter) partition > it opens it fine. > > My FAT partition is owned by the user trying to open the file and > all the files have 777 perms. > > Has anyone else seen this problem and, if so, do you know haw to > fix it? This is kind of a tenuous connection, so it may not apply; but some Linux users on the StarOffice lists had a problem with files on FAT partitions which were mounted on directories with upper-case letters in the path. (In one case he was mounting it on '/C' Changing that to '/c' fixed it.) Since WP8 is a Linux app, it is possible that the root of the problem is in the Linux libraries, and would be inherited by FreeBSD's Linux mode. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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