Re: Error message when installing on Win95

From: Ryan Pavlik (rpavlik_at_ryand.cjb.net)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 22:34:34 EST

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    Justin wrote:

    >I downloaded an older version (I think it was 1.9.1), and installed it. It works fine, all I had to do is update the common controls (or whatever you call it) file so that I could see the toolbar.
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    >The computer does not have IE on it. It's an old piece of junk laptop with 12 megs of ram, 300 megs of rom, and a floppy disk drive (I had to make a self extracting zip file out of abiword setup, and chop it up onto 3 floppies to get it onto the laptop).
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    >It works now, so all is well. Thanks for the help. It's a great program.
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    > --- On Sun 11/09, Alan Horkan < horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie > wrote:
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    >From: Alan Horkan [mailto: horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie]
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    >To: j_freak_at_myway.com
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    > Cc: abiword-user_at_abisource.com
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    >Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:01:24 +0000 (GMT)
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    >Subject: Re: Error message when installing on Win95
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    ><br>On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Justin wrote:<br><br>> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 14:18:35 -0500 (EST)<br>> From: Justin <j_freak_at_myway.com><br>> To: abiword-user_at_abisource.com<br>> Subject: Error message when installing on Win95<br>><br>><br>> I just attempted to install abiword on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/40CX laptop<br>> running windows 95, and after the select language box popped up, it gave<br><br>Abiword can run on Windows 95 but not a clean out of the box version as it<br>needs some extra files.<br>If you have Internet Exlorer 4 (maybe 5) I think you will have an<br>adequately up to date version of msvcrt.dll (I'm pretty sure that is the<br>relevant file). As far back as I can remember windows 95 users have<br>needed to have a reasonably up to date version of Internet Explorer<br><br>> me the "This program has performed and illegal operation and must be<br>> shut down" error. It installed just fine on my Windows 98 computer. Is<br><br>It's a shame that the error message does not suggest a reasonable solution<br>but - shrug - what can you do? We've got people running abiword on all<br>manner of systems (most flavours of unix, most versions of windows,<br>twisted people like me trying to run it on top of Wine, OS/2 users running<br>it on top of Odin which is 'a cousin' of Wine, a Mac X11 version and a Mac<br>Cocoa port being quietly worked on), so help with testing is always very<br>much appreciated<br><br>> there any way to fix this, or a different version I should try? (I have<br>> version 2)<br><br>An older version of Abiword (1.0.x or older) might have less problems but<br>I really doubt it and I'm sure the developers dont want to exclude windows<br>95 users if it is does not require any radical changes.<br>So try upgrading Internet Explorer (maybe you have a magazine coverdisk or<br>an ISP disk lying around to save you downloading it) and if that doesn't<br>work and you have the patience we would really appreciate if you could try<br>a debug build (which you should be able to find from the websites that<br>carry Abi
    >word nightly builds, I'll look up links for you later if I have<br>time).<br><br>Gotta go, really should be studying, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.<br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Sincerely<br><br>Alan Horkan<br>http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/><br>
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    If I'm not mistaken, 1.9 was a test series for 2.0 (anyone?)
    I've had a lot of luck with a pre-1.0 (amazing, but true) version (.99.7
    or something like that?) on a Compaq Laptop with 8 (maybe 4) megs of
    ram. It seems like the 1.0.x series was a lot simpler than this new
    1.9/2.0 (which I still don't fully + completely trust and use everywhere)

    My advice, assuming that that actually is a test version, is to grub up
    a 1.0.2 or thereabouts build, if it's not a lot of hassle. I suspect
    you may have even better luck with that.

    (Have you tried a PCMCIA network card? They're wonderful for this sort
    of installation thing)

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