Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-15 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:39 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I went down the "install on Windows and copy across" path. > > _Almost_ all of MYOB gets installed in its own directory, just a couple > of ini files in the Windows dir., but it did need a Windows dll which I > had to copy across as well.

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-14 Thread Howard Lowndes
I went down the "install on Windows and copy across" path. _Almost_ all of MYOB gets installed in its own directory, just a couple of ini files in the Windows dir., but it did need a Windows dll which I had to copy across as well. Anyway I got it started with several repeats of an error message,

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:25 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > This was visited in the archives about 3 years ago with subscribers > saying that it works, but I don't believe them. I can't even get it to > install. Well, the version from 3 years ago probably does work. I had to visit this problem re

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Howard Lowndes wrote: > Ya, I know about sql-ledger (use it myself) but you know how > conservative finance types can be, esp if they are looking for any > excuse not to get off their comfort zone with M$. Sure do. On that note, I have some conservative finance types using Cygwin on windows to acc

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 23:05, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > I looked at this issue about 3 months ago and went back to win4lin. Wine > was bad with fonts (this is apparently resolvable), the printing was bad > (I sort of got it sometimes working as .ps output - don't even think > about getting it to work

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 23:05 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > > > 1607: Unable to install Installshield Scripting Runtime MYOB Premier's installer is Flash based - so you need flash installed. I run the commercial version of wine, "CrossOver Office" from ( www.codeweavers.com ). I found that I coul

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread Stuart Guthrie
I looked at this issue about 3 months ago and went back to win4lin. Wine was bad with fonts (this is apparently resolvable), the printing was bad (I sort of got it sometimes working as .ps output - don't even think about getting it to work with specially designed invoices etc) and it was all just t

Re: [SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread David Kempe
Howard Lowndes wrote: 1607: Unable to install Installshield Scripting Runtime I don't know much about WINE, never used it much, but I know that I have got that error on XP systems and a samba server. It has to do with some profile information being located on a disconnected drive (like the regi

[SLUG] Wine & MYOB

2004-07-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
This was visited in the archives about 3 years ago with subscribers saying that it works, but I don't believe them. I can't even get it to install. When I run wine d:\setup to run the Installshield from the CD, it starts up OK but very early on in the piece it takes a dive with: The setup progra