"Directory In Use" - Problems/Answers

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:18:41 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer received the error "Directory In Use" while working on a stand- alone computer. Solutions: The customer was out of disk space. Freeing up some disk space eliminated the error. Problem: The customer is running WP for DOS on a stand-alone machine under the UNIX operating system by using SCOUnix and SCOMerge to set up a DOS operating system. After a power failure, the customer receives the error message "Directory In Use, New Directory?" every time he enters WP. Even when he answers No to the "Are Other Copies Of WordPerfect Currently Running?" prompt, the system still does not allow him to access WP in that directory. Answer: Apparently the UNIX system subscribes permissions (read, write and executable) to files for three different groups (owner, group and world). The customer corrected the problem by entering the WP51 directory and changing the attributes or rights for *.* to read/write for the owner, group, and world. Problem: A user received the error "Directory In Use" when trying to enter WP. Answer: Someone had attribed all WP files as Read-Only. Changing them to Read- Write (ATTRIB -R) corrected the problem.

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