Word 2000

[Duane Clark]

Andrew Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I'm really new to wine and I was interested in using it so that I can
> write my documentation in Word 2000 and kill the evil half of my hard
> drive.
> 
> I've been running into some problems getting it to work though and I was
> wondering if anyone had any advice on the best way to set this up.  I've
> tried to install wine and run the Word executable that lives on the
> Windows installation on my hard drive but that complains that there is
> no window's installer installed.  I believe wine is set up correctly
> because solitare works just fine.
> 
> If anybody has any hints, tips, pointers, etc. . . please let me know.
> Some direction on where to start in the documentation would be helpful
> too.

Well, Word 2000 runs for me (installed under Win98), but it is unusable.
For example, the open file dialog generates messages about unimplemented
APIs. So I suspect that someone is going to need to do some wine hacking
before Word 2000 will work.