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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
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- From: mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
- Subject: Problems loading Word for Windows 2 under NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.201507.13970@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:15:07 GMT
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- thought i'd install word for windows v2 on my nt system
- so i could look at .doc files and print them readily.
-
- well, i launched a:install from the first diskette
- and it whirred away just fine until just after starting
- the last diskette. then everything stopped. i could
- use the dask switch to switch to other jobs, but
- the installer seem to have croaked, taking the
- floppy with it. when i tried to "dir" the floppy
- from a newly-launched file manager, touching
- the floppy drive was the kiss-o-death for that
- copy of the file manager.
-
- the weird part is that even after gunning down the
- errant processes from the task list, the DOS windows from
- which I had launched the a:install STAYED BEHIND no matter what!
- Nothing about it worked except the title bar
- which would highlight, but couldn't be dragged or anything.
- more amazingly, after logging out, when i logged-in again,
- the undead window frame came back!
-
- at that point i rebooted. clearly the installer died
- in such a way that the win32 window server didn't hear
- about it and hence kept updating the decorations on the
- base window. this would seem to be a serious bug.
-
- at any rate, has anyone successfully installed WinWord2 under
- NT, and then did it run reliably after you did?? I tried
- running it and got all sorts of angry dialog boxes about
- how I killed the Win16 subsystem, etc, etc.
-
- not very nice, i'twasn't atall.
-
- anyone within a lightyear of a clue on this??
-
- -mo
-
- Bellcore?? Bellcore isn't allowed opinions. Any seen here
- are purely accidental.
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