Re: Using 2 different versions of AbiWord

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 12:37:43 EDT

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    On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Hanxue Lee wrote:

    > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:46:32 +1000
    > From: Hanxue Lee <hlee20@student.monash.edu>
    > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
    > Subject: Using 2 different versions of AbiWord
    >
    > I am running Windows 2000. Is it possible to install 2 different
    > versions of AbiWord simultaneously? Any possible conflicts?

    The problems are so minor I dont think it is even fair to call them
    problems.

    I have installed several copies of abiword side by side and used the same
    dictionaries and profiles and other shared files for all versions without
    any problems as far as I could tell.

    To be extra safe you should probably install to seperate directories and
    backup your "Abiword.Profile" for your older version of abiword. Even so
    older versions of Abiword seem to work alright even if you do change the
    Abiword.Profile using a newer version.

    You might not have a seperate menu entry in the control panel for each
    copy of Abiword but dont worry you can safely uninstall abiword by
    deleting the contents of the Abisuite folder (and run Microsoft Regclean
    if you want to clean out some of the cruft from the Registry).

    No real problems at all.

    You might be intersted in this thread from last week
    http://abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2003/Jul/0086.html there
    are virtually no reasons left to stick with the old version of abiword
    except one or two plugins are not avialable for windows yet (but they will
    be for 2.0).

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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