Re: followup to Transferring MS Word5 on floppies to G4 with ³Classic.²


Stephen G. Landesman wrote:
Thanks particularly for that last graph. I've been accustomed to burning in HFS Extended (actually, that's the default format of my G3 mini tower), but I have the choice of several formats on by burner using Toast 5. And it goes without saying that I agree with you wholeheartedly -- Word 5.1 IS still the best word processor for the Mac! Incidentallly, how stable is it in the Classic mode running under (over) OSX?

There are no differences in performance and stability, when Word 5.1 is run in the classic envirement run in 10.4.x - or 10.3.x for that matter. On the two G4s, where I also have or have had oS 9.2.2 running in classic along with 10.4.11, I have never until now had an unexpected quit with Word 5.1!

You can even do something to make it work the very best way by allocating more memory to it in classic. Give it apprx. 40-50mb in the minimum size and apprx. the double - 80-100mb in wanted size. You can do this either by booting in Os 9.x and use the classic method - mark app + Get Info and select 'Memory' in the popup menu and then type the new values, - or you can do it from within the 'Classic' controlpane in Tiger 10.4.11.

Cheers, Erik Richard

Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
Hei Stephen - At least it does work from my CD with the diskimages. Do remember that all images must be mounted before starting the installer in 'Disk 1'... I made the CD both with image files and with the floppies ALT+DRAG'ged to the temporary Toast 4.1.2 disk on my Beige G3.

I've made new installs of the Word 5.1 on both my PM 9600/350mhz and a PowerBook Pismo 500mhz. The only thing I then copied was the prefs in order to avoid having to set it up again from the buttom, because I had made changes to the toolbar buttons as well. I'm going to install the Word 5.1 onto my new PB 1,67ghz, when I get classic up and running on that one.:-) - Word 5.1 is - in my opinion - the best ever made MS textprocessor for the Mac.

One thing I forgot to mention in my first answer is that the temporary Toast disk must be made in 'HFS Standard' - not 'HFS+'/'HFS Extended'.

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