[ros-dev] Update: Office2000 install on trunk

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,
I am pleased to announce that with Ge's patch to fix Exception
handling and Brandon and Thomas's work on the pagefile it is now
possible to install Office 2000 on the trunk. You will get quite a few
errrors at the end of the install due to missing dlls from MDAC/ADO
that Office2000 expects a Windows 2000 system to ship with, which we
of course do not have stubbed at this time. Thanks to Eric Kohls work
on services msiexec is mostly happy installing Office2000 if started
from the command line like the following

msiexec /i data1.msi

There is still issues with setup.exe properly working althogh I think
this is more due to version numbers we report.

We are still unable to run Office applications at this time due to
unhandled exceptions which look like they are due to COM errors as
well as some problems due to the amount of memory we are reporting.
Both Winword and Access display message boxes saying that there is not
enough memory to run the application. Also even if we do get those
issues fixed we are currently blocked by the registry instablity.

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