Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: David George
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00

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tony@anakrono.demon.co.uk (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!
>
>-- 
>Tony Spence


I have been able to install MS Word 6 on my Risc PC card with none of the 
problems you described, but Windows refused to run it (claimed that some 
part of the application was compressed which it wasn't).

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Date: 1995/09/07
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