Dear friends: WARNING: Please consider these comments about Word97/Wine in Linux as strictly tentative and experimental and, if you decide to try to install Word97 via Wine in Linux, do so at your OWN risk. [ Same for automatic configuration of Internet Sharing using the new Mandrake Control Center wizards. The Internet Sharing wizards do work, at least on my system and very well, but the wizards have bugs in them and you will need to use workarounds. See my recent letter on the subject. But do so at your OWN risk, please]. I finally launched Word97 successfully via Wine in LM 8.0. I selected (in the Codeweavers graphical configuration tool) for Window mode: Desktop = 1024 x 768. I tried Managed, but Word97 came up all messed up. I then tried Unmanaged, but that gave me (i.e. X Windows) no control over Word97 (e.g. if you want to shut it down, etc.). The Desktop option seems best because it allows X Windows to manage Word97 and at the same time allows Word97 to appear precisely in the same form and format it does in Windows. I finally succeeded in getting the mouse AND keyboard to work. I was able to navigate the menus with both mouse and keyboard, but not actually open up most of the menu entries. For instance, I was able to open up Print Preview and see the text that was to be printed, but when I click on Print, it would not print. It would also not save. But I was able to open a document from Windows, in fact, one document was in Russian, but then I realized that the list of fonts in Word97 consists entirely of Type 1 fonts, and then I understood what you meant. I have TT fonts installed in LM 8.0 and I use them in Netscape, but how would I install them or make them available to Word97/Wine? That seems to be the $64,000 question. There were some minor issues, too, but if I can get Word97/Wine to recognize my TT fonts, then I can really use Word97/Wine to check the conversions from StarOffice. I wonder what else might be possible? Saving a file? Now that would allow me to really use it if I wanted to. Please remember that I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98SE and that I have already imported Windows TT fonts into LM via Drakfont. And, of course, MSWord is alreadly installed on my real Windows partition. I launched MSWord97 with: $wine "/mnt/windows/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Winword.exe" You can also do it with: $wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" The quotation marks are necessary to allow Linux to handle the empty spaces in the command line. Please note that the Linux command uses Linux's forward slashes and the Windows command uses Dos/Windows's backward slashes. I would be grateful for any leads on how to install TT fonts in Word97/Wine. But I am quite encouraged by what I have already accomplished, and I have a feeling that once the fonts are in place, I might be able to make Word97/Wine do a lot more tricks than Codeweaver's tech support think it can. Of course I may be wrong and may have to eat crow, but why not try? I don't intend to pursue this matter of Word97/Wine longer than it deserves. However, I am intrigued by the possibilities, by simply how much Word97 can really do in Linux. Codeweavers says it can currently do very little. But is that really true? Of course, if this turns out to be a dead end, I am more than willing to give this up gracefully and move on. I certainly hope that curiosity won't kill this cat. Meanwhile, my new install of LM 8.0 with Internet Sharing via Mandrake Control Center is working flawlessly. Hope to keep it this way till LM 8.1 comes out. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
