Re: NB not 32 bit (& Quikview)

["Jon Inggs" inggsej@xxxxxxxx]

I became intrigued by the discussion about whether NBWin 2000 is
32bit or not.

The proof of the pudding is that I have just installed the NBWin
demo successfully on to a Win3.1 machine and the basics all work so
far. It, however, crashed when I tried the sample Ibidem database.

The compressed NBDEMO.EXE file is 32bit and refused to unpack in
Win3.1. So I copied an installation I had on a Win98 machine on to a
ZIP disk and merely connected it to the Win3.1 machine and ran
NOTABENE.EXE on the ZIP drive. It moaned about not
finding COMDLG16.OCX and THREED16.OCX which I retrieved from the
Win98 machine and copied to the Win3.1 \WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory.

Hey presto and NBWin demo rumbled into action (albeit very, very
slowly because of the ZIP drive). I loaded my XY4.KBD and felt quite
at home.

My KeyView 5.1 in Win3.1 reports that NOTABENE.EXE is:

"Windows 3.1 Executable File Format"

"New EXE Header Info
     Module.................................... NBDEMO
     Description.............................. Nota Bene
     Data.......................................... NONSHARED
     Windows Version..................... 3.10 (PMODE ONLY!)"

I also received the NB postcard but have been getting them
regularly since 1992 when we bought NB4 and Lingua to handle Russian
text for my wife's PhD.

For what it is worth, I was forced to use WordPerfect 8 to produce
the camera ready masters of two 400 page study guides for a
colleague. NEVER AGAIN! The thing crashed several times a day and
insisted on correcting everything I tried change because it thought I
couldn't possible want to do what I wanted to. Data in tables
randomly converted themselves to scientific notation etc, etc.

Regards
Jon Inggs

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