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

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't WP2000 for Linux a native Linux aplication ? Wine is for Windoze
aplications running under Linux.
John Phillips


On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Greg House 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?)
> 
> Greg
> 
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