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Hi, Is it possible to get M$Excel working with Wine? I use Mandrake 9.1 with wine-20030115-4mdk and M$Excel97 SR1 I always get an error about MSCREATE.DIR when I launch Excel. Console messages are: [steph@DeepGlue steph]$ wine /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office/excel.exe fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub Created not existing system directory 'C:\My Documents' file_set_error: Permission denied fixme:ntdll:RtlNtSta...

All, excel.exe is still broken on the latest wine 2.11 with the mscreate.dir error on excel start up. the system is win98 so dcom98.exe is loaded. Is there a work around. If so where is it documented? I have tried to install the dcom95 version but that errors. Thanks, Dan

...the native partition runs excel 97 w/o issue. Attempts to run excel under wine result in the excel splash screen being locked in the forground window and no access to exel. The only way out is to kill all wine pids. As per the notes dcom98.exe is successfully installed. (as a note there is no mscreate.dir error. ) Does anyone know the dll associated with the splash screen? It may be necessary to use native dlls to work around this. This error is recurring. It was persistant a year or so back and then seemed to work in late 2004. However it is back in the Jan and Feb 05 wine releases. Is t...