Hello Roland,
On (28 Dec 97) cybercadet Roland Stiner wrote to Phil Heberer...
 RS> PH>I have 6.0b (DOS) that I have had to re-install a couple of times,
 RS> and without a problem. Once I even installed from my backup copies
 RS> that I made of the original disks, and that even installed okay. I
 RS> would also suspect corrupted disks.
 RS> Right, and I even suspect if you enter nothing into the space reserved
 RS> for the license number, the program would still install.  What I don't
 RS> understand is that when I bought the upgrade (WP8) they gave me a
 RS> brand new license number.  So, if I were dishonest and never had a
 RS> copy of WP, I would still have gotten a full version with a new
 RS> license number.  I
 RS> remember when WP was still owned by the WP company, upgrades didn't
 RS> have a license number, the program specifically told you to get it
 RS> from your original disks.
Whether a version upgrade or a competitive upgrade, the rules for
upgrading have gotten rather lax these days (perhaps trying to one-up
the competition?) I suspect you are correct in that WPDOS would
probably install without the license number. I'm sure I'm a bit biased
because whenever I was stumped on how to do something in Word, I would
switch to WP to get the job done. IMO, Word probably wouldn't be so
popular if it weren't pre-installed on so many new systems. Although
I've had the various incarnations of Word I could use, I _choose_ to
use WP because of the superior, intuitive functions that *I* use! 
Cheers,
Phil
... Capt'n!  The spellchecker kinnae take this abuse!
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