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[Rik.Dunphy@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Rik Dunphy)]

Stefano Papini wrote:
> 
> Sorry Sirs,
> did you eventually succed in running MS word on wine?
> Any hint on this (beside Rik's wine.conf file)?
> TIA,
> 
> Stefano
> 

I managed to get Word 95 to run once, but never again. Someone earlier in
the discussion mentioned they got Word 97 to run, but he did mention that
it rarely crashes, so it must crash still!!

In getting applications to run I take a rather long approach. At the moment
WINE is not perfect so I leave a paritition open for Windows applications
to be installed and run via Windows. Once installed there I can then copy
them to my emu directory and run with WINE. Usually this is accompanied by
a number of complaints about dll's being missing. I track these down and
then install on the emu directory until it works. Although sometimes it
never does....

Once done I restore the old Windows paritition to it's original state and
move on... If the application didn't work on WINE then I usually try to
find a native linux version/clone.

I'm sure it must be possible to get setup applications to run under WINE
but these didn't work on the older version I had. Now that I have the
latest, maybe these things work now?! Hopefully will get to give it a go
this weekend.

RikD


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