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Network - Computer Looks To The A: drive
DocumentID: 652317
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:15 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer has 10 workstations that have two floppy disk drives. The two drives are drive A: which is 5.25", and drive B: which is 3.5". There is not a hard drive on any of these computers. When booting up WP, the system looks to the A: drive briefly. This happens whether the boot disk is in the A: drive, another disk is in the A: drive, or there is no disk in the A: drive at all. Even if the user starts WP with /X the A: drive lights up.


The environment file is WP=/D-F:/U-RGUTHIER/NT=1. He can change to the home directory and start WP from there with /D=F:\HOMEDIR. He has a path to A: in his AUTOEXEC.BAT and in CONFIG.SYS he has DEVICE=A:\DOS\ANSI.SYS, SHELL=A:COMMAND.COM, and A:\ /E:1024 /P. He has no TSRs running when this happens. Solutions: If the path includes PATH=A:\DOS;A:\NETWARE, WP will search the path for the USERID.FIL file. It does this in search of the Userid (3 character initials). To date there is no way to prevent this from happening.

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