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Running WordPerfect With Windows - Editing Th |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: In order for WordPerfect to work with Microsoft Windows it is sometimes necessary to edit a file called WIN.INI. This file comes with Windows and contains instructions regarding the kind of files that Windows will recognize as program files. In earlier versions of Microsoft Windows (1.x, 2.x), .PIF files were not necessary and were not included in the default settings in the WIN.INI file. This file contains a command ("programs=") that tells Windows what kinds of files to recognize. It is sometimes necessary to tell Windows that in addition to recognizing the .COM, .BAT, and .EXE files, it must also recognize .PIF files. According to Microsoft there are some versions of Windows that have shipped that do not include the command to recognize .PIF files. This is because when Windows 3.x is installed, a new WIN.INI file is not created. Instead, Windows will use the existing file, not unlike WordPerfect and .SET files. Since earlier versions of Windows did not contain the command to recognize .PIF files as a default, this command is not placed in the WIN.INI file during install. The following are instructions for editing the WIN.INI file to add .PIF to the configuration. 1. Enter Windows 2. Enter the Program Manager 3. Cursor to File 4. Select the option for Run 5. Once in Run type sysedit and press Enter 6. Select the file called WIN.INI 7. Cursor to Program= COM, EXE, BAT and verify that PIF is included in the list 8. If PIF is not included in the list, add it If PIF is not included in this statement, it will be impossible to run WordPerfect under Windows since the .PIF file is not being recognized as a program file. When attempting to enter WordPerfect without .PIF in the statement, an error message will appear. This will only occur when using the release of Windows that does not create a new WIN.INI file and only appears when updating from Windows 1.x and 2.x to Windows 3.x. Microsoft is aware of this problem and has corrected it. |
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