Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: Gerry Iles
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00

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tony@anakrono.demon.co.uk (Tony Spence) wrote:
>Managed to install the product without problem on a 'real' PC so it looks
>like the discs are OK.  Disc drive not known message obyained if attempting
>to access discs 2, 3 and 5-7 in ROS, DOS & Windoze, so it would appear that
>the problem is ROS and not PC card software.  The fact that cataloguing disc
>4 (*dr.0 then *. from command line) the floppy drive powers up then I get a
>catalogue listing for my hard drive (drive 4) makes me think that there is
>something 'funny' in the disc name which is being misinterpreted by ROS as a
>drive number.

Well, the disc name could be '4'. Translates to 'ADFS::4.$'...

I believe this is the main reason why the RiscOS formatter requires at least 
2 characters for the disc name....

Gerry Iles

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From: Gerry Iles <gerry@xara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
Date: 1995/09/07
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