hello all, I have been trying to run MS Windows and Excel under wine. They are about the only two remaining dependent Windoz apps The error they produce relates to write permissions. However that does not seem to be the root issue. Other apps, such as Notepad, seem to be able to write without issue. What is currently required in way of wine config to satisfy Word and Excel? Thanks in advance, Dan
Presuming in the first sentence you meant "MS Word and Excel", I'll say "Good Luck." As an earlier reply here noted, Microsoft has booby-trapped its own programs to refuse to run except under a Microsoft-branded OS. You might want to look into a Linux-based alternative like OpenOffice.org. John Freed dan wrote:> hello all, > > I have been trying to run MS Windows and Excel under wine. They are > about the only two remaining dependent Windoz apps > > The error they produce relates to write permissions. However that does > not seem to be the root issue. Other apps, such as Notepad, seem to be > able to write without issue. > > What is currently required in way of wine config to satisfy Word and Excel? > > Thanks in advance, > Dan >
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:49:43 GMT, dan <dansawyer@earthlink.net> wrote:>I have been trying to run MS Windows and Excel under wine. They are >about the only two remaining dependent Windoz apps > >The error they produce relates to write permissions. However that does >not seem to be the root issue. Other apps, such as Notepad, seem to be >able to write without issue. > >What is currently required in way of wine config to satisfy Word and Excel?Word and Excel 97 are reported to have worked at some time under Wine. That don't mean they still work, as Wine has many regressions. You can try to post a bug report (documentation/bugs) to fix them. Check first if no Wine 'drive' is write protected (especially the one corresponding to temp directory). If there is none, put on a web page a trace with -debugmsg +relay,+dosfs,+file with a run of your app demonstrating the problem. Gerard