Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Luke Ravitch wrote:
>> uses the partition larger than 2Gb, which
>> is not properly handled by DOS (or by the
>> program itself?)
> What could I do to test this?
First make sure the partition you use really
exceeds 2Gb. If not - skip the tests.
Create an empty file of, say, 100Mb (with dd
from /dev/zero for example). Create the FS on
it (with mke2fs for example). Mount it as a loop
device. lredir to it and copy your DOS stuff
there. See if it works.
(no, don't use mkfatimage16 instead of the
loop-mount - mkfatimage16's image access will
most likely solve your problems, but as a test
it would be completely useless).

Re: Re Word 6 for DOS - Disk is full

[Luke Ravitch]

On 2004-12-19 13:15, Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:
> >>uses the partition larger than 2Gb, which
> >>is not properly handled by DOS (or by the
> >>program itself?)
> >What could I do to test this?
> First make sure the partition you use really
> exceeds 2Gb. If not - skip the tests.
> Create an empty file of, say, 100Mb (with dd
> from /dev/zero for example). Create the FS on
> it (with mke2fs for example). Mount it as a loop
> device. lredir to it and copy your DOS stuff
> there. See if it works.

Okay, I made a 1G file, built an ext3 filesystem on it and mounted it
as a loop device.  Then I copied the whole C drive directory onto the
loop fs and changed the symlink (~/.dosemu/drives/c) to point to it.

Word still thinks the disk is full.  :-(

> (no, don't use mkfatimage16 instead of the
> loop-mount - mkfatimage16's image access will
> most likely solve your problems, but as a test
> it would be completely useless).

This probably deserves an RTFM, but... How dow I use mkfatimage16 to
(most likely) solve my problems?  Do I build the FAT image and then
mount it as a loop device or is there something I do to tell DOSEMU to
mount it itself?

Thanks.

-- 
Luke

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Luke Ravitch wrote:
> I am trying to run MS Word 6 for DOS under DOSEMU.  Everything seems
> great except for one (not so) minor detail - Word insists the the disk
> is full.
Some people claim this happens if one
uses the partition larger than 2Gb, which
is not properly handled by DOS (or by the
program itself?)
AFAIK this was not proved so far, so it
would be very interesting to find out whether
it is true or not.

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Luke Ravitch]

On 2004-12-19 09:30, Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:
> Luke Ravitch wrote:
> >I am trying to run MS Word 6 for DOS under DOSEMU.  Everything seems
> >great except for one (not so) minor detail - Word insists the the disk
> >is full.
>
> Some people claim this happens if one
> uses the partition larger than 2Gb, which
> is not properly handled by DOS (or by the
> program itself?)

What could I do to test this?

-- 
Luke

Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Luke Ravitch]

I am trying to run MS Word 6 for DOS under DOSEMU.  Everything seems
great except for one (not so) minor detail - Word insists the the disk
is full.  On startup, it pops up a dialog with that says "The program
disk is full" and if I try to save anything, it complains that "The
document disk is full".   I can write/save with other programs (e.g.,
touch, edit, etc).

I'm running DOSEMU 1.2.2 (I tried 1.3.1 - it behaves the same) with a
vanilla configuration.  I did tinker with the FILES and BUFFERS
settings in config.sys, but that didn't have any effect.

Anybody seen any problems like this?

TIA!

-- 
Luke

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[riccardo]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 08:01, Luke Ravitch wrote:
> I am trying to run MS Word 6 for DOS under DOSEMU.  Everything seems
> great except for one (not so) minor detail - Word insists the the
> disk is full.
________________

 ~ maybe, this is an ownership & permissions problem?

 . . . try : chown -R <your username> /home/< MS Word 6>

 then,

 try : chmod -R 0755  /home/< MS Word 6>

best rgds
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Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Luke Ravitch]

On 2004-12-19 01:55, riccardo <riccardo35@gmail.com> wrote:
>  ~ maybe, this is an ownership & permissions problem?

Nope - permissions were okay.  (That's the first thing I thought of.)

Thanks.

-- 
Luke

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[Luke Ravitch]

On 2004-12-19 01:55, riccardo <riccardo35@gmail.com> wrote:
>  ~ maybe, this is an ownership & permissions problem?

Sadly, no, that's the first thing I looked at.

Thanks.

-- 
Luke

Re: Word 6 for DOS - "Disk is full"

[didier]

Le dim 19/12/2004 à 09:01, Luke Ravitch a écrit :

> I am trying to run MS Word 6 for DOS under DOSEMU.  Everything seems
> great except for one (not so) minor detail - Word insists the the disk
> is full.  On startup, it pops up a dialog with that says "The program
> disk is full" and if I try to save anything, it complains that "The
> document disk is full".   I can write/save with other programs (e.g.,
> touch, edit, etc).


I had the same problem (search for ["Open Access 4" on dosemu] in sept
2004) but i didn't solved it.
Sorry :-<

D.


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