[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> For what its worth, I got the WP2000 for linux that included a copy of
> Corel's linux distro.  I then blew away a perfectly functional Redhat system
> to install corel's linux.  When I try to run WP2000 on Corel Linux, wine
> hangs.  I've tried tweaking both the linux distro and wp2000, and I've tried
> reinstalling both, but I could never get wine to function properly.  I was
> so disgusted that I haven't tried to install it on anything else.  I now
> have a new appreciation for Debian's insistance on fixing all "release
> critical" bugs.  On the other hand, I'm getting tired of waiting for potato
> to go stable (get to work, John!!!).  Can't have it both ways, I guess.

That doesn't surprise me too much, despite having spent several hours
reading and trying things with Wine, I've never actually gotten it to do
anything very useful. On one system, it would play Freecell. Woopee... I have
yet to get it to run any program I really needed, the things I have to
keep Windows around for...childrens educational software, Quicken, simple
Bible study software. Not that Wine _won't_ do it, I don't know. I've never
really understood how to set up the winerc file properly...

Maybe a good ACLUG meeting topic? (Have we had that one already?)

Greg

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