.PAGE SIZE 58,68 .TITLE WPS-Plus/VMS and All-In-1 Share Document Database .SUBTITLE B.#Z.#Lederman .CENTER Having WPS-Plus/VMS and All-In-1 Share a Document Database .BLANK.CENTER Bart#Z.#Lederman .BLANK.CENTER ITT World Communication .BLANK.CENTER New York, NY 10004-2464 .PARAGRAPH It is possible to run both All-In-1 (which includes WPS and/or WPS-Plus for editing documents and mail) and WPS-Plus/VMS on the same system. There is a slight drawback as you can't have any forms libraries installed in memory for either product, but it has the advantage that people who want to do only word processing don't have to go into AI1. .PARAGRAPH It is also possible for both products to share the same document database (for a particular user and/or account) so that a person could edit the same documents from within AI1 or from DCL using WPS-Plus. .NOTE IMPORTANT! There is currently a limitation that only one person can be using a document database at a given time: for example, if you have an account used by a secretarial pool, only one person can be using WPS-Plus at a time. This limitation ^&DOES NOT\& change by having WPS-Plus and AI1 share the same database: only one person, using either WPS-Plus or AI1, can edit a document at one time. It is to be hoped that DEC will do something about this very serious crimp in normal office procedure soon. .END NOTE .PARAGRAPH The problem is quite simple. WPS-Plus expects your document database to be in a sub-directory [.WPSPLUS]: for example, if you log into account SMITH with default directory [SMITH], WPS-Plus will look for it's database in [SMITH.WPSPLUS]. All-In-1 also expects to use a sub-directory, but it normally looks for [.OA]; or in our example, [SMITH.OA]. The solution is also quite simple: although the directory WPS-Plus looks for is fixed, the one AI1 wants is not: you can set it to be whatever you want; or, to be more accurate, the AI1 MANAGER can. When setting up an account, there is a line for the default directory near the bottom of the account management screen which can be set to match the WPS-Plus default of [.WPSPLUS] rather than the default AI1 gives you of [.OA]. .PARAGRAPH If you've already set up an account using [.OA] and now want to use WPS-Plus, just create a sub-directory [.WPSPLUS] and rename or copy all files from [.OA...] to [.WPSPLUS...].