[PLUG] The broken WP saga: more info

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Tue May 7 21:48:58 UTC 2002


Rich,

One thing I do notice after I exit WordPerfect is that there is a 
process named "wpexc" that hangs around all of the time unless I kill 
it.

Tony

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 14:17 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On 7 May 2002, Alan wrote:
> > See if there are any config files for Wine and/or Corel hanging
> > about. They might be the problem.  (Corel uses a very odd version
> > of Wine.)
>
> Alan -- and everyone,
>
>   The Redmond solution did the trick. Must have been a bone stuck in
> memory somewhere and it took a reboot to cough it out. I am amused
> that I never think of rebooting to solve a problem until I've spent
> 1.5 days trying everything possible to find the cause. :-) While it's
> almost like giving up to reboot the box (it had an uptime of 250
> days), it got me back into production. Whew!
>
> > They have stopped supporting Word Perfect.
>
>   They never did support it. Until they disbanded their WP/linux
> team, I was in regular communications with the head of that team and
> he was equally frustrated at corporate's attitude toward the product.
>
>   Thank you all very much for your cards and letters of encouragment
> and the help offered. I always learn valuable lessons and I gain
> tremendous insight working to resolve these problems and benefiting
> from all the expertise here. But, ... reboot? Who thinks of that, eh?
>
> Rich
>
>
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-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com
>>>>This machine was last rebooted:   1 days 15:26 hours ago<<





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