wine users - May 2001 - Personal Ancestral and Wine

Hello,

I am trying to get Personal Ancestral File (which is free Genealogy software 
from The Church of Latter Day Saints) to run with wine.

I have tried configuring wine in different ways following different 
suggestions in the HOWTOs and Wine user guides with varying results. I have 
also tried installing the software using Wine rather than just running the 
windows-installed program. Installation fails because Installshield does not 
run correctly (however, I note from the FAQs that support for this has not 
been included in Wine yet). The best I have managed so far is to get the 
software loaded so that I am able to browse an input file. However, the 
program crashes when I try to edit an entry.

I know that this description of the problem is vague, however, I would 
prefer to be able to provide more useful debugging information under 
guidance rather than a whole load of stuff which may just confuse the issue. 
I can obviously provide general info such as software versions, blow-by-blow 
accounts of the steps I have taken and the various error messages which have 
resulted. Unfortunately, I am not a C programmer and I cannot use (wine)dbg 
tools. However, I have quite a lot of experience with Unix and I am sure I 
could produce whatever is required with suitable instructions.

Is there some knowledgeable person out there who has either managed to get 
PAF to run with better results or who feels (s)he is able to help anyway? If 
so, I look forward to hearing from you!

Cheers for now,

John
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Hey.  I actually have tried to get this app working under wine before with
some limited success.  Can you send me a geneology file and tell me what
version of PAF and wine you are using?  If you aren't using the latest
wine version you should upgrade to the latest release.  I'll see if I can
come up with anything on PAF as far as what is broken.  I'm pretty busy
these days with other open source stuff but I should be able to figure out
in general what is broken.

Chris



On Fri, 18 May 2001, John Austin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get Personal Ancestral File (which is free Genealogy
software
> from The Church of Latter Day Saints) to run with wine.
>
> I have tried configuring wine in different ways following different
> suggestions in the HOWTOs and Wine user guides with varying results. I have
> also tried installing the software using Wine rather than just running the
> windows-installed program. Installation fails because Installshield does
not
> run correctly (however, I note from the FAQs that support for this has not
> been included in Wine yet). The best I have managed so far is to get the
> software loaded so that I am able to browse an input file. However, the
> program crashes when I try to edit an entry.
>
> I know that this description of the problem is vague, however, I would
> prefer to be able to provide more useful debugging information under
> guidance rather than a whole load of stuff which may just confuse the
issue.
> I can obviously provide general info such as software versions,
blow-by-blow
> accounts of the steps I have taken and the various error messages which
have
> resulted. Unfortunately, I am not a C programmer and I cannot use (wine)dbg
> tools. However, I have quite a lot of experience with Unix and I am sure I
> could produce whatever is required with suitable instructions.
>
> Is there some knowledgeable person out there who has either managed to get
> PAF to run with better results or who feels (s)he is able to help anyway?
If
> so, I look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Cheers for now,
>
> John
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
>
>