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From: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Word installation problems
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Date: 21 Dec 88 20:26:18 GMT
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Recently while installing Microsoft Word on several IBM AT's I ran
a strange problem, which I was hoping someone out there could help
me solve. 
     Everything went smooth on 3 out of 4 machines, but on the last,
Word would not run. It would just clear the screen and lock up. I had
turn off the machine to reboot. This was on an AT running Fixed Disk
Oraganizer menu system (FDO), and sidekick. Thinking there may be a conflict,
 I de-installed sidekick, and ran word from DOS. Everything worked fine.
Then I tried it again from within FDO, and it locked up again. It ran
fine in FDO on all the other machines. As a stab in the dark, I added
FILES=30 and BUFFERS=6 to config.sys and now it runs MOST of the time,
but still locks up some times.
     Does anyone out there have any ideas? I don't know what to try next.
Thank you in advance for any and all information!

Ted Goldstein          du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu
School of Technology
Purdue University