Ed Nelson wrote:
>
> My apologies for repeating the following (from May 1); no-one was able,
> at the time of the initial posting, to clarify.  It's my hope someone
> now on the list can take the time.             ---ed
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> Dare I simply install Word6 on top of what shards of an earlier
> installation may remain? It's been so long I'm remarkably unaware
> of procedural propriety; I do the "setup.exe" from somewhere in Windows
> 3.11, yes?
>
> I'll greatly appreciate any guidance!                        ---ed
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Typically, Win 3.1x isn't as smart as Win 9x OS's and Software.  Since
Win 3.1x is DOS based, unless someone wrote the program to check for the
file first before writing it to the HD, it will just go and write the
files to the locations specified (drive and c:\windows and possibly
c:\windows\system directories.)

Note, while this is typically the situation, it really depends on how
thoughtful the software program was written.  I really don't think they
were too concerned about overwriting a previous file that far back, but
you never know.
--
Jean Bourvic :>))

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