Word 2000 on Wine

Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 p4hivr001 at sneakemail.com
Sat Jun 23 02:41:01 CDT 2001


Rene Esquivel <rene.esquivel at cingular.com> wrote:
> I keep hearing that Ian Schmidt figured out how to get Word 2000 to work
> under Wine. Well, his domain comes up unknown and all references I have
> seen on this subject hyperlink to his defunct URL.

> Has anyone out there got Word 2000 installed on W2K to work under wine?
> I'm using FreeBSD Codeweaver port but any success from anyone be it Red
> Hat, Mandrake, etc would be appreciated.
Uh oh.
Forget running on W2K.

*If* you intend to use Word2K with Wine, then use a Win9x install.
(yes, it starts up there, but it's kind of semi-usable)

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