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Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: Simon Bryan
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <19950905.185839.02@anakrono.anakrono.demon.co.uk> 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!
> 

Maybe you need a new set of disks, I have it running on 12 Riscpc600's
But have ha problems with faulty disks, would not load on my HP either.
Besides, RISCOS should not be seeing the disks if you are installing from
Windoze.


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From: sbryan@ozemail.com.au (Simon Bryan)
Subject: Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
Date: 1995/09/08
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