[Wine] Re: Lotus 123 with Wine

[Krister Hallergard]

Encouraged by the good results with SuSE9.1 using older versions of 
wine, I tried older versions with SuSE10.0.  With wine 20040505 it works 
fairly well, not quite stable though.

Krister Hallergard wrote:
> 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.
>  
> First tried installing Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 96, which worked fine, 
> but when trying to open a wk4-file all distros froze.
>  
> 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!!
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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??
>  
> 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?
>  
> Krister Hallergard
> Lytham, UK
> 
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