Check the access rights on the windows dir. Gil Katz Mercury Interactive. Tel : 972-3-5399799 UIN : 1538854 =====================================================================================================================So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish. ===================================================================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Didier B. Ramilison [mailto:rdb@amytravel.malagasy.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 13:24 To: Wine Users Subject: wine and MS office 97 can anybody help me with getting excel 97 run in wine 20030508? word 97 seems to run though i got the error message telling me that disk is full. excel 97 does not run at all due to an error with mscreate.dir format or being in read only access. thanks for any help didier _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses. Mercury Interactive Corporation Optimizing Business Processes to Maximize Business Results http://www.merc-int.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses. Mercury Interactive Corporation Optimizing Business Processes to Maximize Business Results http://www.merc-int.com ________________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20030519/b29386da/attachment.htm
can anybody help me with getting excel 97 run in wine 20030508? word 97 seems to run though i got the error message telling me that disk is full. excel 97 does not run at all due to an error with mscreate.dir format or being in read only access. thanks for any help didier
thank gil for your response, i have rw access to the whole C directory still this does change nothing in the excel program response to a call. the error is " the format of mscreate.dir is not valid". any clue? thanks didier ramilison On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 07:34, Gil Katz wrote:> Check the access rights on the windows dir. > > Gil Katz > Mercury Interactive. > Tel : 972-3-5399799 > UIN : 1538854 > > ======================================================================================================================> So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish. > ======================================================================================================================> > -----Original Message----- > From: Didier B. Ramilison [mailto:rdb@amytravel.malagasy.com] > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 13:24 > To: Wine Users > Subject: wine and MS office 97 > > can anybody help me with getting excel 97 run in wine 20030508? word > 97 > seems to run though i got the error message telling me that disk is > full. excel 97 does not run at all due to an error with mscreate.dir > format or being in read only access. > > thanks for any help > > didier > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > ________________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned for all viruses. > > Mercury Interactive Corporation > Optimizing Business Processes to Maximize Business Results > > http://www.merc-int.com > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned for all viruses. > > Mercury Interactive Corporation > Optimizing Business Processes to Maximize Business Results > > http://www.merc-int.com > ________________________________________________________________________
This was posted to the list a few months back, if you can search the archives, you will get the full answer, but I got around this by simply deleting every instance of mscreate.dir and it worked. On Monday 19 May 2003 03:24, Didier B. Ramilison wrote:> can anybody help me with getting excel 97 run in wine 20030508? word 97 > seems to run though i got the error message telling me that disk is > full. excel 97 does not run at all due to an error with mscreate.dir > format or being in read only access. > > thanks for any help > > didier > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users-- -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." -------------------------------------------------------- Michael Peddemors - Senior Consultant LinuxAdministration - Internet Services NetworkServices - Programming - Security Wizard IT Services http://www.wizard.ca Linux Support Specialist - http://www.linuxmagic.com LinuxMagic is a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. -------------------------------------------------------- (604)589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada