From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 13:23:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA2C414E1F for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 23362 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1999 20:23:02 -0000 Received: from useraj03.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.133.132) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 1999 20:23:02 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA01478; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:22:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:22:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WP8 won't open files on FAT partitions Message-ID: <19991005212255.G315@marder-1> References: <19991005203728.F315@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:11:19PM -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > 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. > Virtual Beer for you, my friend. That was exactly it :) I had the FAT mounted on /drvC, changed it to /drvc and it works perfectly (Wordperfectly?). Curiously it didn't work by doing ``ln -s /drvC /drvc'' and then using /drvc in WP's File Open dialogue so it must be the actual mountpoint. Thanks. > > > -Pat -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message