Any success with wine 20010418 and MS Office Viewers?

[Jakob Eriksson]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 g.patel at wanadoo.fr wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:35:50 +0200, Jakob Eriksson
> <dat95jen at mds.mdh.se> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> >Microsoft has free viewers for MS Word and Excel file formats.
> >Has anyone had any success with these and Wine 20010418?
> 
> Yes, one of my test apps for Wine is the Word 97 viewer.
> It does not run well at all but it can load word 97 files.

Hmm. I couldn't install it. I didn't have an installed copy
hanging around.
The 16 bit archive unpacked fine into a setup exe
and some other files (.cab I guess), but wine hang when
running the install file.
(Maybe that never worked. Can't remember. Maybe I installed
in Windows first...)

Jakob