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List:       abiword-user
Subject:    Re: Error message when installing on Win95
From:       Alan Horkan <horkana () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date:       2003-11-21 20:16:53
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Ed Agro wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:13:33 -0500
> From: Ed Agro <ed_agro@verizon.net>
> To: j_freak@myway.com, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Error message when installing on Win95
>
> I also got the illegal operation msg when trying to install AbW ver. 2
> (both the public release and builds from pchasm), on a machine running
> Win95B. (Ver 1.04 non-bidi works fine.)  I decided to wait until I'd
> istalled Win2K to try again; but noticing that "get the latest copy of
> msvcrt.dll" has popped up in the discussion, I did a search of my system. I
> find that I have four versions of msvcrt.dll installed, each one coming in
> during the install of one app or another. The "latest" ver. available from
> microsoft (I found it in
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp5/sp5_vb_en.aspx
> ) is in fact the *oldest* of the ones I see on my machine. Could a Win95
> user tell me if the msvcrt.dll applicable to AbW should into

> \windows\system

maybe, probably

> and/or \windows\ws2bakup?  And would I give myself grief if

nope, that is clearly a backup directory to put spare DLLs in.

> Also, can I run two versions of AbW, if I don't update the directory during
> install of the second version? thanks - ed

yes, you can run two (or more) versions of abiword just by installing them
to different directories.

Later

Alan H.
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