[Wine] MSWord97 installs properly but still won't launch (or save?) -- 3 more data files

[Ekkehard Flessa]

Hi Benjamin!


BS>Thanks for your tip about launching Word by going to the Office
BS>directory and type from within the directory:
BS>
BS>wine WINWORD.EXE

You're welcome :-)


BS>All that's left is to figure out how to save and load files from
BS>within Word.

Normally, that should be simply a matter of calling the appropriate men=
u 
entries. But as I wrote in the newsgroup earlier, there's some problem =
with 
saving files. I didn't test much, but when trying to save "test.doc", 
entering letters in the file selector was messy (letters would appear o=
nly 
after every second typed in char), and the file created had a name that=
 was 
truncated to the "t" at the beginning.


BS>http://www.websher.net/tmp/word1.png

Umm... that doesn't exactly look like a file permission thinggy, but wo=
rd is 
somehow trying to access a non-existant folder "Sonnet29" instead of sa=
ving a 
file with that name. Can't help you with that, sorry :-(

Just one thought: Do you have write permissions to E: at all? Assuming 
E: is a windows partition, some Linux variants will by default allow 
read access only. Don't know about your Linux variant, though.


BS>htpp://www.websher.net/tmp/word2.png

This doesn't help at all, as it doesn't state _where_ e:\ is. It's Linu=
x, so 
there are no drive letters at all, and e: is linked somewhere to your f=
ile 
system.


With best regards
Ekkehard