Office apps (Word and Excel) questions

[Alan Bort]

El jue, 13 de 03 de 2003 a las 14:27, Louis LeBlanc escribió:
> Hey all.  I have an interesting one here.
> 
> I'm running wine under FreeBSD, not the linux-emulation version, but
> the native version.  I never had a Windows installation to work with
> though, and the best I could do was run freecell.  Pretty cool from a
> proof of concept point, but not really worth the effort in itself.
> 
> What I'm trying to do now is take a spare hard drive and install
> Windows 2000 in an NTFS partition on it, then mount that into the
> FreeBSD system.  My first bout with the wine docs implied that having
> a real installation with all the native libs would make a lot of it
> quite a bit smoother.
I suggest you don't install on an NTFS. unix doesn't support writing to
NTFS ( i don't know about free bsd, but I think it's the same) and there
could be some problems (windows doesn't like when other write their
partitions)
> 
> Now, I know there's a commercial product that will allow Office 2K to
> run under Linux (and therefore, probably FreeBSD), but I don't really
> want Office, just Word and Excel.  Anyone know if there are any
> caveats to this?  Where would one go to get the step by step process
> of doing this once the install is available?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Lou
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