Thank for you information ..
I will try to configure it. I hope i will sussuess
Best regards,
SKLIM
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] WINE with Office 97]
> On Thursday 23 November 2000 07:11 pm, SKLIM wrote:
> > Thank Marco
> >
> > I have StarOffice 5.2 . I just want to make my wine work with
> > Office97
>
> While you can use wine to start Office 97, it's almost certain it
> will be entirely unusable. The best source of info for setting up and
> using wine is the wine-howto, paying particular attention to wine.conf
> example configuration. Your wine.conf must accurately reflect the
> location (ie, hda1) of your Windoze and other drives/partitions. That
> is really the only thing that needs to be done to use wine. Windoze
> does not need to be installed, but then the Win-app and all it's
> dependencies (.dll, .vdx, .ini, etc) must be. It's prob'ly obvious
> that this approach is very difficult.
>
> For the most part, few if any Windoze apps will run satisfactorily
> with wine. One notable exception is Forte's Agent (mail/news). If a
> Linux user must maintain the ability to use windoze apps, the best
> option is to dual boot, followed by a solution like VMware ($$) or
> Plex86 (free), and as a last resort .... wine. While this is just my
> opinion, I believe I'm safe in saying it's a widely held one.
> --
> Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
>
