For Quicken, check out Crossover Office.  It (reportedly) allows you to use up 
to Quicken 98, with the added bonus of Office 2000 as well (if that can be 
construed as a bonus).  I plan on picking it up as soon as I have 9.0 
installed, it's gotten very good reviews.

Incidentally, have you found that Quicken works well under Wine by itself?

On Friday 27 September 2002 14:03, et wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote:
> > I am running Mandrake 7.2, but would like to upgrade to 8.2, which I
> > presume should be better. However when I tried to do an upgrade, I lost
> > all my Wine settings. I need to run Wine, so I can use a couple of
> > Windows applications, which  do not appear to yet have Linux equivalents.
> > They are Quicken and Agent.
>
> ohh please, pan wipes agent out the door, just get the latest version, and
> don't get 8.2, get 9.0, and Gnucash may not be better than Quicken, but no
> reason not to think it is just as good for almost every usage. Heck the
> Apps I don't see for linux are the US income tax prep and send and you can
> use the "online" html versions of those
>
> > It appears that Wine now stores its config files in a different location
> > and uses a different syntax. Is this correct, or can I still use my old
> > configure file.
> >
> > I also lost read/write access to my windows partition except when logged
> > on as root. There did not appear to be an easy way of changing
> > permissions, but perhaps I could not find it. I tried editing my fstab
> > file but then go errors on boot up. Again can I preserve my present fstab
> > file, or is there an easy way of giving users full access to my windows
> > partition.
>
> keep (move) the current fstab as fstab-old so you can look back and see the
> changes and edit the new file the way you want, I like to have only root
> able to write to the fat partition, it makes sure nothing from an e-mail
> ever gets to screw with the fat partition. use the superuser mode to write
> to fat, any one can read from it. just my way.
>
> > I hope someone can find the time to answer these queries, or perhaps the
> > only interest is in people using versions 8 onwards.
> > Bernard Victor
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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