wine users - Aug 2002 - Installing Excel 97, SUCCESS!!

Hi again!

Yesterday I wrote to this list complaining that I could not install Excel 97. I
have now succeeded. The trick was NOT to run "install.exe", but to
unpack xl97_1.cab and run the acmsetup.exe in there, like so:

"wine -- acmsetup.exe /T excel97.stf" 

(I think that excel97.stf existed in the first cab-file as well.)

The installer will ask for a few files that all can be found in the cab-files.)

However, running excel (using "wine excel.exe") does not work. This is
a swedish edition, and that is most certainly part of the problem, if not the
entire problem.

Running "wine excel.exe" gives a splash screen and then exists with
this printout:

fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
fixme:string:GetLocaleInfoA 'ICOUNTRY' is not defined for your language
(0C1D).
Please define it in dlls/kernel/nls/YourLanguage.nls
and submit patch for inclusion into the next Wine release.
fixme:string:GetLocaleInfoA 'IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE' is not defined for
your language (0C1D).
Please define it in dlls/kernel/nls/YourLanguage.nls
and submit patch for inclusion into the next Wine release.
wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
/usr/bin/wine: line 439:  9688 Terminated              $WINEBIN/$WINE_BIN_NAME
"$@"
Wine failed with return code 143
Terminated

However, the nls-file it talks about MUST be "sve.nls"
("swedish" in swedish is "svenska" which becomes
"sve" when abbreviated to three letters, which seems costumary for
nls-files) which has been present in the wine source code for quite some time,
it's latest change date in the cvs is in march. In essence; I don't
really think its missing.

So... what can I do? Any ideas?

Oh yeah, I'm running Debian/testing and everything is up to date. I ran
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade a few hours ago.

Thanks!

/Fredrik Persson

I'm replying to my own mail, since I've found out somethine that may
help solving this...
> fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
> fixme:string:GetLocaleInfoA 'ICOUNTRY' is not defined for your
language (0C1D).
> Please define it in dlls/kernel/nls/YourLanguage.nls
> and submit patch for inclusion into the next Wine release.
> fixme:string:GetLocaleInfoA 'IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE' is not defined
for your language (0C1D).
> Please define it in dlls/kernel/nls/YourLanguage.nls
> and submit patch for inclusion into the next Wine release.
> wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
> /usr/bin/wine: line 439:  9688 Terminated             
$WINEBIN/$WINE_BIN_NAME "$@"
> Wine failed with return code 143
> Terminated
In the file dlls/kernel/nls/sve.nls, Swedish is defined as 041d, not 0c1d. I
find this strange. (I really don't know what 0c1d would be.)

Is there a way to make GetLocaleInfoA return the correct value? (Ie, 041d for
swedish.)

Thanks!

/Fredrik Persson