Hi, i've used word 6.0 for dos on freedos on 16 and 32 FAT , but with jemm and himem without problem .
My copy of word 6 can be download here: http://www.perotti.ic.cz/wordprocessor/WORD6DOS.zip >Try and report.. Roberto iw2evk Eric Auer-3 wrote: > > > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Loading-old-DOS-programs-under-FreeDOS-tp21597270p21619143.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
