Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:18049 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:719 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.0 => 4.2 conversion (was Re: PK361.EXE Message-ID: <23030995@ralf> Date: 12 Aug 88 16:07:01 GMT Article-I.D.: ralf.23030995 Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: <5578@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> In article <5578@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) writes: }It is buggy in 5.0, but you CAN write a 5.0 text file in 4.2 format. }It is in the text in/out command tree. Until they fix it, this results }in a file of ZERO length in the directory until you leave that file, }then the program re-writes the FAT to the right file length. What is happening is that WP isn't closing the file! DOS doesn't update the directory entry until the file is closed.