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From: patl@phoenix.volant.org
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Subject: Re: WP8 won't open files on FAT partitions
To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
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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


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