Re: Is it wrong to install WordPerfect 5.1 on a Win XP machine?
- From: "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 23:44:39 +0200
On Sun, 7 May 2006 14:00:13 -0400, "Don MI <>" <d7macm8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Windows does not access Notepad to boot. Nor, does the program you associate
with the TXT file type have any effect on the abililty of Windows to boot.
Correct - I'm surprised these myths wren't dispelled a while back :-)
Of WordPerfect, I know not.
DOS apps generally will not be allowed to destabalize an NT-family OS,
such as XP - so there's no harm in trying it. There's no integration
of DOS apps at the file association level unless you instigate that,
and as XP doesn't run apps from Config.sys or Autoexec.bat, the DOS
app can't embed itself in that way either.
I'm pretty sure I've used WP 5.1 OK (and as a scrape-over, not as a
formal install) in XP, along with WordStar 5 and other crusty DOS
apps. The only DOS apps that often hard-lock Windows are those that
play deeply with the parallel port, e.g. Lap Link, and even there I
expect XP won't hard-lock system-wide as Win9x did.
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