> > I have inherited an old SCO system and today no-one could open or
> > close any files at all. An error message like the following kept
> > appearing:
> > "Sco Professional is replacing file as in:proxxxxx.wk1"
> > and then the program would automatically quit. And sure enough there
> > are now lots of proxxxxx.wk1 files appearing in the directory. I just
> > wish I could open them. Does this sound like a SCO Pro problem, a
> > hardware prob or UNIX? Any ideas
> Sometimes the problem is too many files in the directory - try creating
> a subdirectory under the main directory and moving the .wk1/.wk2/.wk3
> files there and then change to the directory.
Indeed. I have seen that problem here also, and it was related to too
many files in a directory (also it can do that with certain strange
file names that might be in the directory).
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