Experiences with Word 2000, SmartSuite 9

Alex Ionescu [397670] ionucu at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 11 17:57:04 CDT 2001


How did you make Word run?
It tells me "You need to have this Office 2000 Premium installed to use
Word"
I have it instaleled under my Win partition. I think it's looking for a reg
key.
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> Using WINE 20010323 under a stock Mandrake 7.2 system.
>
> Word 2000 seems to work but won't save files. If the file exists,
> it just says, ``file exists'' [OK]. If you save anywhere fancy
> like ``My Documents'' it says this is not a real filesystem location
> [OK]. If you specify a drive and path (h:\filename.doc) it tells you
> that this is an invalid filename, please check it [OK]. It had no
> trouble asking for and committing a registration key (this is a
> NEC/Packard OEM system).
>
> Oh, and it has a problem starting TBPC (Office Assistant), what a
> shame...
>
> SmartSuite installs up to the point of ``configuring software'' then
> puts up endless messages (1 a second, I think) about returning 0
> without checking.
>
> If I install SmartSuite under 'doze and run it from WINE, it opens
> WordPro, puts up the starting dialog box, and goes totally catatonic
> (with --managed windows I can use the dialog box as a paintbrush).
>
> MSPaint and WordPad seem to work flawlessly. Windows media player
> seems to work, albeit slowly (Rage 64 video card, XFree86 4.0.1).
>
> Internet Explorer complains about lots of SHLWAPI functions and dies.
> I can't seem to get WINE to use the native SHLWAPI.DLL by editing
> the DLLoverride list in ~/.wine/config
>
> Sincerely, Don Quixote (-:
>
>
>
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