Eberhard Roloff wrote: > David Brodbeck wrote: > >> I don't know why, but Wine has always fought me at every turn. I've >> never successfully gotten it to run anything more complicated than Solitare. >> > > Well, as usual, it depends. > > For example I used it to run ie6/word/excel/powerpoint/outlook 2000 and > the MS Office viewers successfully, but I see (nearly) no point in doing > this, since Linux offers so much natively. > > Imho a worthwhile exception might be the office viewers from MS. > > Although they are really rarely used on my machines, they always offer > you the "Officially Microsoft approved way of looking at an Office > document". Rarely used but sometimes _REALLY_ useful. >
I decided, after reading this thread, to give it another shot. I installed wine and winetools off Packman and tried to go through the winetools setup procedure. A lot of the setup options in winetools crashed with debugger messages. I almost got Internet Explorer 6 to run on my laptop this way -- it installed, but running it just gave me a blank window. I tried it on my desktop and couldn't even get a 'fake Windows drive' created that winetools thought was valid. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
