[linux-help] Re: CLOS NEWBIE

[james l <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> From: "mbachman" <mbachman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > YEP, I thought Corel Linux was going to be the answer. So far all I can
> > do is email and that seems to be going badly. The list is long, STARTING
> > WITH ALL COREL APPLICATIONS HAVING FATAL ERRORS and me not having a fix.
> 
> 
> By "all corel applications", I assume that you are refering to Corel
> Wordperfect, Quattro, etc.  If that is the case, I had similar problems with
> the office suite.  It seems that WP Office absolutely requires that your
> printer software be installed ("lp" must be installed, but you don't need to
> configure a printer), or the applications will crash and burn.  They don't
> even bother to mention why they break.  If you aren't refering specifically
> to Wordperfect Office apps--or if this isn't the problem, you'll need to
> tell us which applications, and give some details regarding how they die
> (error messages, etc).
> 
> Jeremy
> 

For notebook users, you have to have a floppy drive hooked up to have it
work. If you edit /usr/lib/corel/wine/wine.conf or wherever wine.conf, in
corel's libs is, I think you can get around both problems.

James L


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