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Adrian

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WordPerfect 5.2a for OS/2 working!
« on: January 09, 2026, 11:07:11 am »
Finally I've got wordperfect 5.2a for OS/2 working on ArcaOS 5.1.1
The golden tip was from Andy Mills, where he described that the max. amount of RAM should be less than 512Mb for installing wordperfect for OS/2.
A temporary RAM-disk of 2600Mb was created.
So, I made copies from my config.sys, os2.ini and os2sys.ini. (Tip of Roderick to avoid that config.sys was "toasted").
Choose for custom install if you don't want it installed in de root directory of your bootdrive.
Installation finish with no error code but no folders or program objects are created.
As a result a popuplog.os2 was created:

01-08-2026  16:11:10  SYS3175  PID 005b  TID 0001  Slot 008c
C:\TEMP\WPINST.DLL
c0000005
00010499
P1=00000000  P2=ffffffff  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00001a17  EBX=00005aa6  ECX=0002c44f  EDX=0000c416
ESI=0002ca94  EDI=0002ca42 
DS=0017  DSACC=00f3  DSLIM=0000ebff 
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=7fffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=000f:00000499  CSACC=00fb  CSLIM=0000d811
SS:ESP=0017:0000c3f0  SSACC=00f3  SSLIM=0000ebff
EBP=0002c40c  FLG=00010246

WPINST.DLL 0001:00000499

I made the program object myself, ad the two created wordperfect directories to the libpath and path.
After removing the RAM-disk and reboot, wordperfect refuses to start, mowing that it couldn't find DDEML16.DLL, DDEML32.DLL and OS2SHCWP.DLL.
I was able to locate these DLL's and ad them to the wordperfect directories.
After that wordperfect starts and works.
Bit of nostalgia was recreated (snif).

Grts,
Adrian

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Re: WordPerfect 5.2a for OS/2 working!
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2026, 04:33:51 pm »
Thanks Adrian for sharing this.

Please allow me to add your information in the OS2World wiki.

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Re: WordPerfect 5.2a for OS/2 working!
« Reply #2 on: Today at 08:12:23 pm »
Thanks Adrian for sharing this.

Please allow me to add your information in the OS2World wiki.

Regards
Hi Martin,

Of course!
This forum is one big wiki, so please go ahead.

grts,
Adrian