[fptex] Novell, NT and Dviwin

[Jørgen Larsen]

In my department we use fptex installed on a Novell server,
and we have workstations running NT 4.0.

We have the following problem when working
on a Novell drive (but not on a local drive):
When windvi is displaying the file 'foo.dvi'
and I try to run  'latex foo'  then I get the
error message
"I can't write on file 'foo.dvi' ".
Then you have to exit latex, exit windvi,
and then restart latex.

Since it only happens on Novell drives, I suppose
that the problem is that Novell thinks that when
windvi is looking at 'foo.dvi', then the file
should remain locked.

I have no idea what to do about it, so I hope that
someone out there might help.



Jørgen

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