Put WordPerfect disk back

[charlesgoodin]

Jos.

I think I can zip the folders. Can you please advise how I would send them to you via wetransfer?

Charles

[charlesgoodin]

Jos. I think that I can zip the folders? Could you please advise how I would send them to you via wetransfer?

Charles

[emendelson]

Try this:

Open a command prompt as administrator (if you don't know how to do that, search the web for "cmd prompt as administrator" and you'll find the answer). Type this command

fsutil 8dot3name query

press Enter.

Now, please answer these two questions:

1. What result did you get when you typed that command?

2. What is the drive letter of the folder that causes the problem?

Please reply ONLY when you have the answers to both questions.

[charlesgoodin]

Hello.

I followed your instructions and got the following:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.1288]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>fsutil 8dot3name query
The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default).

C:\Windows\system32>

The drive that is causing the problem is C:

Thank you.

Charles C. Goodin

[emendelson]

OK, next question is this. Open a command prompt; navigate to one of the directories where you can't use F5. Enter the command

DIR /X

Do you see DOS-style filenames listed, as in the box in this picture:

manjusullad.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/view-existing-shortpaths.jpg?w=640

You almost certainly will see those DOS-style filenames, but it's worth making sure, just in case. The fact that this problem is occurring on new computers, not old ones, suggests that recent versions of Windows may be using default settings that get in the way of directory management in WP 4.2.

Also, when you're in vDos, but not running WP, navigate to one of the directories that's causing the problem, and enter

DIR

Does the file list appear as you expect?

[charlesgoodin]

Thank you.

When I ran the program for vDos, it produced (this is when WP was open):

C:\vDos>dir /x
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is 96CB-AE71

Directory of C:\vDos

02/04/2022 09:47 PM <DIR> .
02/04/2022 09:47 PM <DIR> ..
07/01/2021 04:54 PM 1,053 autoexec.txt
02/04/2022 09:49 PM 3,455 config.txt
02/25/2020 04:26 PM 78,025 FAQs.pdf
02/04/2022 09:47 PM <DIR> FILES-~1 FILES-OLD
05/24/2021 01:04 PM 10 INSERX.MAC
12/06/2019 11:08 PM 111,108 lucon.ttf
05/22/2021 10:14 PM 10 MAIN.MAC
02/25/2020 04:24 PM 50,169 Printing.pdf
02/04/2022 09:47 PM <DIR> PROGRA~1 Program-Original
02/25/2020 04:25 PM 20,007 Readme.pdf
05/23/2021 04:43 PM 11,514 SETTIN~1.DOC Settings-CCG.docx
05/24/2021 01:18 PM 28 start.bat
05/24/2021 09:01 PM 619,256 vDos.exe
05/24/2021 11:24 AM 70 VDOSBO~1.TXT vDosBoard.txt
12 File(s) 894,705 bytes
4 Dir(s) 158,813,016,064 bytes free

C:\vDos>

When I ran for WP, I got, in part:

07/14/1991 10:24 PM 2,603 XMACRO.DOC
07/14/1991 08:50 PM 36 XMACRO.MAC
07/14/1991 09:28 PM 1,133 XMACRO.STD
05/07/2021 08:55 AM 340 Y
02/27/2007 01:54 PM 82 Y.TXT
02/17/2011 06:28 PM 23 Z1.MAC
08/08/2003 10:53 AM 6 ZIP.MAC
02/04/2022 09:49 PM 0 {WP}.BV1
02/04/2022 09:49 PM 0 {WP}.CHK
02/04/2022 09:49 PM 4,096 {WP}.SPC
02/04/2022 09:49 PM 0 {WP}.TV1
07/05/2021 11:34 AM 1,746 {WP}LEX.SUP
03/29/2011 03:14 PM 541 {WP}SYS.FIL
755 File(s) 1,449,256 bytes
7 Dir(s) 158,810,853,376 bytes free

These file names look normal to me.

Thank you again.

Charles C. Goodin

[Jos]

Seems the WP.EXE file is mangled, or its version doesn't match the other WP files.
I sent 'my' WP.EXE copy w/o F5 issues.

Jos

[emendelson]

Jos seems to have solved this; apologies for time-wasting questions!

[charlesgoodin]

Hello All,

Problem solved thanks to Jos! Thank you also to emendelson. I cannot thank you enough. Literally, my life can move forward. I was so focused on my problem that everything else stood still.

Thank you again! vDos is the best!

Charles