On Sunday 20 May 2001 10:20 pm, you wrote:
>
> I must admit that I am still a bit intimidated by wine and a little
> afraid to proceed. Everything is installed. Could you suggest, please,
> precisely how I should proceed now. What are the basic steps I need to
> take to actually install MSWord97?
>
Don't be intimidated by WINE.
Look here for some help: http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/help.php
As a regular user, run winesetup. It provides help for most choices. The only
crucial part is looking at the drive assignments (so you can see what drive
was assigned to the CDROM ) and going to the DLLs section to change the order
of all the dll's to native, builtin from builtin, native where there is that
choice. You may also want to set the Look and Feel to Win98.
Then click on Finish and you're done.
>From a shell prompt, type:
wine regedit
This is the easiest program to run, it seems to me (it's really just a text
editor). You can try notepad, sol, mshearts and other programs. The first
time you run a program in wine, it takes a longtime (to create entries for
the fonts, IIRC). Be patient.
If a wine/Windows program hangs, use alt-ctrl-esc to get a kill cursor and
click on the window. Then run:
ps aux | grep wine
to list all the wine processes and kill any left by hand:
kill [process ID]
Use kill -9 [process ID] if they refuse to die. 8)
You can run programs in you Windows paths (settings in winesetup) like
regedit, or by specifying the windows path:
wine "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexlore.exe"
(the quotes are necessray because there are spaces in the path name).
or bu using the Linux path name:
wine /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/iexplore.exe
A neat feature of Codeweavers is that it automatically sets a mime type for
.exe files and has WINE launch them -- just use the KDE or Gnome browser to
navigate to them and click on them to launch them.
BTW, I'm running IE5 under WINE right now look at at www.mandrakeuser.org.
There are some repaint problems on teh navigation buttons, but it renders
html OK.
So, how would you usually install MSWord97?
Insert the CD and type:
[CDROM drive letter}:\setup.exe
It's almost the same way in WINE.
wine [CDROM drive letter}:\setup.exe
or navigate there with your browser and click on it.
Have fun. Let me know how your install of Office goes.
Hoyt
