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

[Andrew Peck <drew375@xxxxxxxxx>]

That is one meeting I would love to attend!

Michael Holmes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > 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?)
> 
> HERE HERE!!!   :-)
> 
> >
> > Greg
> >
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