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From: vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word under VP/IX
Summary: it works, with patch
Message-ID: <84@calcite.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 06:28:49 GMT
References: <21280@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Rhyolite Software, Mountain View, CA
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In article <21280@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, tbray@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
> Can anybody out there tell me first-hand either that this is known to work
> or known not to work, or if there are any special gyrations required?
> Tim Bray, U of Waterloo, tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu

Microsoft Word 5.00 works here under ISC 2.0.2 and VP/ix 1.1.1 with a
Logitech "new" bus mouse, but only after getting the `"Disk Full" Patch'
diskette (for free) from Microsoft.  Without the patch, Word thought the
DOSy representation of the UNIX filesystem was full, read-only or otherwise
unusable.  Without the patch it was able to use real and
fake-in-a-single-file DOS filesystems.


Vernon Schryver
vjs@calcite.uucp