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Article #307Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
From: Duncan Alexander Robertson
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
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On Tue, 5 Sep 1995, Tony Spence wrote: > Anyone out there managed to load MS Word 6.0 on an RPC610 with Acorn 486 > card? (And before anyone asks WHY, it's because Impression isn't compatible > with Word 2.0, and that's the format my client wants reports in) > > > There appears to be some incompatibility problem between the issue disc > names and RiscOS as only discs 1 & 2 can be read as opening disc 3, 5, 6 or > 7 gives the error message Disk drive not known, whilst trying to open disc 4 > root directory opens my hard disc root! > > Help! > I think you maybe have a problem with your source disks because I have actually installed Word 6.0 on my RPC610 with PC486 twice now (i had to start again from scratch after I ran out of space on my original DOS partition!) and I experienced no problems whatsoever. I couldn't sya for sure what's wrong in your case, but I know that Word can and does work on the PC card. Duncan Robertson
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