Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:22:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> 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> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.939154279.5137.patl@asimov> References: <19991005203728.F315@marder-1> <ML-3.4.939154279.5137.patl@asimov>
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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
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