Full Directory Copied To One File At DOS

DocumentID: 609087
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:33:57 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer was copying files at a DOS prompt by typing COPY C:\\*.* to C:\ where was a directory name the user thought existed. As it turned out, the "new directory" did not exist, so DOS combined all of the files from the original directory into one massive file. Unfortunately, the customer did not realize this and subsequently deleted the original directory at the DOS prompt. The user wanted to know if there was a way to go into the huge file and block and copy sections to separate files. Solutions: In WordPerfect 5.1, there is not a way to go into the resulting huge file and block and copy sections to separate files. The customer will receive one of several messages like "Not Enough Room On WP Disk" or "Divide Overflow." The problem is that when DOS copied all of the WP files into one file, it also copied the prefixes that appear at the beginning of each of the files. The result was one big file with prefixes mixed in. When WP comes across these prefixes inside the huge document, the program locks. One option the customer has is to use a binary editor (like Office Editor) to separate the files. There may also be third-party programs that might help customers do this. Please refer to memo 20589C in the WP51 and WP50 infobases for more information on appended files.

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