[KLUG Members] Wine project

[Paul Jursinic, Ph.D.]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Leonard" <Lists@elite4god.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Wine project


> I've gotten it to work.
>
> My machine was a dual boot setup. I copied the whole windows dir to a dir
> on the linux drive.
>
> I then set the wine config to point to this dir.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Just curious, if it's just for office why not use openoffice?
>
> >> Do any of the members of the list server have experience configuring
> >> the Wine software for RedHat ver. 8.0 and its use with Microsoft
> >> Office 97?  I have downloaded the program and looked at the Winehq web
> >> site.  I am just getting started trying to do this and am seeking any
> >> hard won experience from any of you.
> >
> > I've made stabs at using Wine but it never seems to actually go
> > anywhere.  I think you only really have two options (a) pay for the
> > codeweavers WINE package that is pre-setup/configured and runs things
> > like Office or (b) pay for VMware and just host a Windows instance.
> >

Jeremy,

I have tried OpenOffice but have found the spreadsheet program to be lacking
in a few areas that area really important for the research work I do.
Microsoft Excel has a very useful function called "solver", which is not
present in the OpenOffice spreadsheet program, that I use frequently.  Also,
I have found the chart functions in Microsoft Excel to be much more
extensive than any in the OpenOffice spreadsheet program.  On the other
hand, the equation editor in the OpenOffice word processing program is
superior to that in Microsoft Word.

I have other special software that only run in the Microsoft windows
environment.  My hope is that installation of Wine on the computer running
LINUX will allow use of this special software as well as office programs.

The configuration of Wine seems a bit daunting, do you have any suggestions
besides making a Windows directory?

Thanks for your help.

Paul Jursinic