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"File Not Found" Retrieving File In DOS Box O
DocumentID: 654815
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:33 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS in a DOS compatibility box on an OS/2 server. When he tries to retrieve a file, he gets the error message, "File Not Found ." Solutions: This is a problem with OS/2 1.3. In OS/2 1.3 IBM added an additional entry to the DOS error table that was not available in OS/2 1.2. This additional entry occasionally does not return correct error messages to DOS applications. This means that when a DOS application is run in a DOS compatibility box and DOS returns an error message, sometimes it is reported to the application as a different error message. This causes the application to behave erratically and the user to believe the problem is in the application when in reality the problem is in the operating system.

In this situation for example, the user was trying to retrieve a file that another user had already opened. Instead of returning an "Access Denied" message and allowing the second user to open the file as Read Only, the DOS box returned a "File Not Found" error message. The file was present in the directory and could be seen in List Files.

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