standalone word viewer question

[Rob]

I'm creating a CD that I need to get to run on auto-insert and display a
Word document, regardless of what the PC has on it for software. I figured
the Word Viewer for 97/2000 might be the solution, but it wants you to
install it first. I even tried to copy all the .DLL files out of
windows/system into one directory and run it that way, but was told there
wasn't enough diskspace or memory to run Word Viewer. Anyone have any
recommendations to do this, or alternative solutions I could convert Word
to? I'm thinking HTML but there is no guarantee there will be any sort of
HTML viewer on the machine (basically I need to maximize the likelihood this
CD will work on whatever we have for PCs 15 years from now. In all
likelyhood there will be no CDroms, this software probably wont run on
whatever OS is current on the 256bit or 512bit processors of that time, but
who knows........) Thanks!

 

[TF]

HTML sounds sensible: a computer without an Browser supporting HTML must be
a very rare computer. And not very interesting!



: I'm creating a CD that I need to get to run on auto-insert and display a
: Word document, regardless of what the PC has on it for software. I
figured
: the Word Viewer for 97/2000 might be the solution, but it wants you to
: install it first. I even tried to copy all the .DLL files out of
: windows/system into one directory and run it that way, but was told there
: wasn't enough diskspace or memory to run Word Viewer. Anyone have any
: recommendations to do this, or alternative solutions I could convert Word
: to? I'm thinking HTML but there is no guarantee there will be any sort of
: HTML viewer on the machine (basically I need to maximize the likelihood
this
: CD will work on whatever we have for PCs 15 years from now. In all
: likelyhood there will be no CDroms, this software probably wont run on
: whatever OS is current on the 256bit or 512bit processors of that time,
but
: who knows........) Thanks!
:
:

 

[Rob]

we're talking 15 years from now..... no way of knowing if there will be a
compatible browser installed then (assuming whoever wants to read this doc
can dig up one of those archaic CD players ). no way of knowing if the
software i choose will run on the OS of the time either, but at least i
wouldn't be relying on whatever is installed on their machine.