wine users - Feb 2005 - Wine "built-in" substitutes for "Naturals"

Hello, everyone.  I have a rather basic question I hope someone on the 
list can answer.

Has the wine project, or any other group, developed an alternative to 
substitute for DCOM98.EXE and a few of the other frequently encountered 
MicroSoft Corp. .exe files?  Thus far, I have tried to install two 
different U.S. federal income tax filing prepartion software packages 
through wine, but installation has failed unless I install DCOM98.EXE 
and a few other MicroSoft files.  I have those files (and everything 
else that came as part of a Windows 98 operating system), but I would 
rather not use any of it.

Is it possible to run applications in wine without the DCOM.EXE and 
similar files?

Thanks for your input.

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:33:35 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Hello, everyone.  I have a rather basic question I hope someone on the 
> list can answer.
> 
> Has the wine project, or any other group, developed an alternative to 
> substitute for DCOM98.EXE and a few of the other frequently encountered 
> MicroSoft Corp. .exe files?
Yes. We are a few weeks away from being able to run InstallShield without
DCOM98. We are about 6 months away from having a good enough MSI to
install most software.

thanks -mike