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

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Running the single copy on multiple remote X displays should be legal--if
you have enough licenses for that.  The WP8 license takes that into
account--I'm sure the WP2k license does, too.



On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:29:41PM -0500, James wrote:
> Well I got it, and it works on the laptop (VERY slow to load, but managable 
> after
> that) One nice thing is that you can install it on more than one computer as 
> long
> as you don't load it into ram at the same time,.(hmm... does a remote X app 
> count?
> :)
> 
> It was planned to be a native linux port, but they were going to run the 
> windows
> source code with the winelibs, but they did not finish the winelibs in time 
> for
> their scheduled release date. So they took a later windows version and 
> modified it
> to work with the wine they distribute with Office. And it can be modified to 
> run
> other windows programs under Linux.
> 
> See below for a soultion to Greg's problem
> 
> James
> 
> John Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > >
> 
> REALLY wierd/easy/stupid thing.
> Corel does not mount cds with the -o exec option. (RedHat does though)
> so from corel:
> mount -o exec /mnt/cdrom1/
> 
> 
> >
> > > 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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