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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Am a newbee to Linux and am trying to evaluate
various distros to see how they fit my needs. For this purpose I now have
six trial Linux partitions on the same machine. My other criterions
to replace XP as my main system have been passed by all
the distros, but remains the last one: to be able to handle Lotus
wk4-files. That is where I have my history.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First tried installing Lotus 123 from SmartSuite
96, which worked fine, but when trying to open a wk4-file all distros
froze.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Next tried to install Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97,
which worked fine except for Mandriva 2005 Ltd Edition which did not react at
all to "setup.exe". The other distros opened Lotus 123 but died on me
after about 10 seconds. Except Fedora Core 4, which died after trying to
open more than about two files. Thought this might be a memory problem, so
I tried to reduce the demands on the system by elliminating a lot of
options in user setup, smart icons setup and view preferences. After
having done this I found that I got a fully working Lotus 123 on my Fedora
distro!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My other distros did not let me change the settings
before dying. So I copied over the lotus directory and the wine registry
files (I don't use wine for anything else - so far) from Fedora. For most
distros the result was the same - dying after 10 seconds. Also got
Mandriva to work like that. But SuSE 9.1 didn't die - it worked!!, just as
well as (or even better than) Fedora Core 4.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All distros had the Wine version 20050830 except
SuSE 9.1: 20040213. Did try version 0.9.1 on Mandriva, but no difference
to the 10 seconds death. Actually the installation said that 0.9.1 was
older than 20050830!? The other distros were SuSE 10.0 and Kubuntu
5.10. Did also try to copy over Lotus 123 Millenium Edition to the Fedora
partition but it died on me as soon as I tried to retrieve a file.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I have to well working versions of Lotus 123
SmartSuite 97 on Fedora Core 4 and SuSE 9.1, but this is only with
the console command "wine winefile" and then go to the Lotus file
123w.exe to start. When trying to start from the menu shortcut, Lotus 123
starts okay, but it dies when I try to open a file or change a setting.
How do you explain that??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would very much appreciate suggestions how to to
proceed to get the other distros onboard! Is this a memory problem,
and if so how to solve it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Krister Hallergard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lytham, UK</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>