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Abiword developers have oficially dropped win9x support.

You can install an old version ([http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/ 2.4.6 or older]) but you will miss some great new features.

Is possible to install and run Abiword 2.8.6 on Win98 with
Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 32Mb Ram with 2Gb hard disk.

This is the procedure:

* Download and install from microsoft web, MS unicode layer for Win9x

  Learn what is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688166
  Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14851

* Download and Install kernelex

  Kernelex is a Kernel extension for Win9x, that emulate
  some of the WinXP API.
  Donwnload: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

* Now you can install Abiword as usual.

* If needed, copy msvcp90.dll and msvcr90 to c:\windows\system
  Those are available from www.dll-files.com but those files are visual C runtime,
  may be you have got files on your system installed with other programs.


Based on http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12923