Luis> For what is worth, I have to say that the installer for 141 (dots 
Luis> abbreviated) actually works on Win98.  The problem starts on trying to 
Luis> get LyX to run. Crashes badly, without telling you why: only this 
Luis> bl**dy "Page" protection error/fault/whatever screen...

Microsoft themselves are dropping 98, 98SE and ME support in July. It seems
reasonable for LyX to do the same.

Enrico> I am curious to know if the cygwin version works on WinME. I know for
Enrico> sure that 1.3.4 with X11 worked, as I built and installed it on the
Enrico> machine of a collegue of mine a couple of years ago. I had to enlarge
Enrico> the system environment fiddling with config.sys, but then it worked.

Luis> ... however, LyX seems to be pretty happy while running on Cygwin, 
Luis> especially on top of the xforms library. So I think that's the way 
Luis> to lead our poor Win95/98 (and perhaps ME) users.

Cool!

Angus


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