On Sunday 20 May 2001 08:53 pm, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I would like to try out MSWord97 in Linux using Wine, and I would
> appreciate instructions on how to do this in LM 8.0.
>
> I have a dual-boot (LM 8.0/Win98 SE) with a /mnt/windows/ directory
> already included (on a separate drive) and wine installed as an rpm in LM
> 8.0, so it should pretty easy.
>
> I would appreciate specific instructions and recommendations for the best
> wine rpm to use with MS Word97.
>
I suggest uninstalling the supplied WINE rpm and installing the Codeweavers
version of WINE just for the nifty GUI configuration tool.
The homepage is at http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/
It's an easy install as long as you remember to have itcl installed. The X11
contribs should also be installed so WINE can display error messages.
Either way, . . .
WINE doesn't seem to like WinME at all, but Win 95 and 98 seem to do just
fine. You can even install WINE without having Windows installed at all (but
you may want to have an installation handy to copy some dll's over to the
fake Windows directory).
During the setup (and in you wine.conf file), you will see you drive
definitions. By habit, I always set up my CD-ROM as drive R:\, so to install
a program from a CD that uses setup.exe, I would enter on the command line:
wine r:\setup.exe
Hoyt
