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Win 3.1-Unable to Opern MS word 4.0
Name: P K Lakshminarayanan Date: February 10, 2003 at 02:43:22 Pacific OS: DOS 6.22 CPU/Ram: 486/ 8 MB
Comment:
When I try to open MS word 4.0 in my 486 computer a window comes and requests that I should first exit windows and load SHARE.exe. But still it shows the same problem.. Please advice.......
Name: kjanx Date: February 10, 2003 at 05:03:47 Pacific
Reply:
the computer doesn't have near enough memory in it to run programs. add some ram.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mick C Date: February 10, 2003 at 16:04:25 Pacific
Reply:
8MB should be more than enough memory for Win3x & Word 4.0 But you need to install SHARE via Config.Sys
The following example shows how you can use the install command in your CONFIG.SYS file to load SHARE. In this example MS-DOS searches for the file SHARE.exe in the DOS directory on drive C.
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