Re: Error message when installing on Win95

From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 07:12:20 EST

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    On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Justin wrote:

    > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:09:11 -0500 (EST)
    > From: Justin <j_freak_at_myway.com>
    > To: abiword-user_at_abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: Error message when installing on Win95
    >
    >
    > 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.
    >
    > 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).

    If you are interested in cramming abiword on to a single floppy disk you
    can do this by using UPX http://upx.sourceforge.net to compress the
    Abiword.exe down to less than 1.4 MB and even run it directly off the
    floppy disk (but no room for a directionary or extras like that).

    I think Jeremy was distributing just a UPX compressed copy of the Abiword
    binary on its own for a while, it may still be available with the nightly
    builds.

    Hope that helps,
    Hope that makes sense,
    Tired and stressed.

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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