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Article #308MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
From: Duncan Breckels
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
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Duncan Alexander Robertson <dar@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: >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? >> There appears to be some incompatibility problem between the issue >> disc names and RiscOS as only discs 1 & 2 can be read as o= pening 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 think that MS use a standard DOS format for the first distribution disk and a special un-copyable format for the subsequent disks which can only be read by the install program on the first disk. Could this be the reason? Duncan Breckels Disclaimers apply--- my opinions only.
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