LV 7.0 works fine on 98. There is no need to save any earlier.
If you read Alex R's response, you will see that the MS decisions were no more than 2 or 3 months apart. Like m3 said, it's possible that the 7.1 runtime will work on 98, but just not be supported. Altenbach made an
analysis a few months back regarding the installer. Try reading it to see if you can cheat windows (although I doubt it).
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