Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<Big Snip>
> Well, I did a little more research at Wine headquarters
> (http://www.winehq.org) under Search: Word97, etc. I found from the
> correspondence that no one has succeeded in getting Word97 to work in
> anything even close to a satisfactory way. I was lucky to be able to use my
> mouse and keyboard and even print preview but no printing, no saving, and no
> other menu entries were really accessible except the one that was put there
> by Wine itself. So, perhaps the man (Jim) from codeweavers-wine tech support
> was right after all.
>
> So, unless Wine makes dramatic progress or someone has the magic key, I think
> I'll just consider this an interesting experiment. Let's hope Codeweavers or
> Wine itself succeed in making it work in time for Wine 1.0 or whenever. Until
> such time, I bid this project my fond adieu.
>
> All my thanks again for your kind help.
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Hi Benjamin,
Sounds as if you made a valiant effort. Thanks for sharing your experiences with
us.
It seems to me that any adjustments that might need to be made in SO when opening a
Word .doc (I very rarely need to make any), would require less
effort than fighting w/ Wine at this point.
Abiword works fairly well w/ rather simple .doc documents,
but is much less effective w/ anything complex (columns, tables, etc.)
Good Effort, Benjamin,
Mike
--
"Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and
dreadful idolatry took place there."
--Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
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