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Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: Greg Toland
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
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In message <19950905.185839.02@anakrono.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!
> 

I loaded Word 6.0 with no problems at all.  Just remembered though it was
part of Office Professional, don't know if that makes a difference

-- 
Greg Toland
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From: Greg@gctsmt.demon.co.uk (Greg Toland)
Subject: Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
Date: 1995/09/13
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