Hi! > Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for > MS-DOS load under FreeDOS on a FAT16 partition: > > Illegal Instruction occurred > CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS=0000 ES=0317 > EAXX=00000100 EBX=00000530 ECX=00000F00 EDX=00000020 > ESI=000005A8 EDI=00000002 EBP=0000FFDD > Aborting Program
Searching for a while, I found that you probably talk about http://download.microsoft.com/download/word50/Wd55_eng/5.5/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_eng.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word says that MS released Word 5.5 for MS DOS for free instead of only publishing a year 2000 fix. On the other hand, while page http://www.win31.de/board/showtopic.php?threadid=701 only says that the install fails when you try to install the thesaurus or spellchecker (or maybe does not fail) the page www.oldversion.com/talk/archive/index.php/t-1080.html claims that the download is only for owners of Word 5.0 ...? Anyway... Checking the downloaded 3.5 MB exe file it turns out that it is a self-extracting ZIP (pkzip) file so you can also unzip it using unzip instead of running it... Then I get many "MS Compress archive" compressed files (gzip idea) and 20-something uncompressed files: 850.tbl, ega.sys, hp3si.ini, various pif and pi2 files, mouse.sys, mw.hlp, printers.doc, readme.doc, setup.exe, setup.ini, spell-am.lex, thes-am.lex, vpa.bat, vpa.cmd, wdbf.exe, word55.inf, word.ovl, wrd5read.rtf and wrd5read.txt ... The doc files are just plain text. The hp3si.ini file is just ESC %-123...@pjl ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL $ xxd setup.ini 0000000: 414c 2020 2020 0709 2020 2a45 6c76 6973 AL .. *Elvis 0000010: 2a20 000a The vpa.bat and vpa.cmd files contain: echo off rem Patch word 5.5a setup to avoid calling int 10, 1130 with BH > 5 rem This is necessary to avoid hanging problems on older EGA boards wdbf %1 18000 232 "144 144 144" 18015 232 "144 144 144" @echo off rem Patch word 5.5a setup to avoid calling int 10, 1130 with BH > 5 rem This is necessary to avoid hanging problems on older EGA boards wdbf %1 18000 232 "144 144 144" 18015 232 "144 144 144" When I run "setup /?" in xdosemu, I get this message: To set up Word on a stand-alone computer, type Setup To set up Word on a network workstation, type Setup user To set up Word on a network server, type Setup network To set up Word (version 5.0) on a stand-alone computer, type Setup 5.0 To set up Word (version 5.0) on a network server, type Setup network 5.0 To decompress a file manually and copy to the current directory, type Setup /d source To decompress a file manually and copy to a new directory, type Setup /d source destinationpath To decompress a file manually and copy to a new directory and new filename, type Setup /d source destinationpath\filename When I run setup without arguments, it says it will unzip and copy all files, install monitor, keyboard, mouse and printer drivers, and provide a readme... and that I need to know whether I use DOS or OS/2 and which printer, mouse and graphics card I use... Selecting normal (not Tandy, not safe keyboard) and F: (a FAT32 drive I have in dosemu) and VGA (IBM EGA and MCGA might be good, too) and no spell checker, thesaurus, printer, lessons, mouse update leads to (without customizing) asking me for my name and asking whether I want config / autoexec updates (I do not, syntax differs between DOSes)... Now I have a 738281 byte word exe etc etc and typing "word" starts a text editor which looks like EDIT but can do more ;-) Sooo... In DOSEMU, things seem to work fine in simple settings. Maybe installing some of the drivers that I skipped can cause problems in FreeDOS, dunno. And maybe the dosemu built-in HIMEM and/or EMM386 work better than the ones you used. Try HIMEMX of www.japheth.de (see JEMM386 homepage) without (J-) EMM386 first, as it is good to have at least XMS (HIMEM, HIMEMX, similar) but it can be risky to load any EMM386 (or similar) because those provide UMB memory to DOS which can overlap with with memory in use for other things. The two standard solutions are: Not load any EMM386 or manually tell (X options) EMM386 which UMB regions it has to avoid :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
