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Kevin Nathan
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Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:58 am Post subject:
Re: about Wine
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:51:15 GMT
Peter H <pete@vicnet.net.au> wrote:
| Quote: | If anyone has been able to get wine going properly and can give us
less experienced users some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.
It's not that I like windows, but I need Excel for compatability with
work and would rather not have to have a disk with windows on it 
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Typing 'wine' has worked for me. I think the config program is
'winecfg'.
As to Excel compatibility, have you tried OpenOffice.org's 'Calc'? That
has worked fine for me, so far -- although it may not work if the
spreadsheet has complicated macros or such . . .
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Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Open standards. Open source. Open minds.
The command line is the front line.
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6:49pm up 6:45, 8 users, load average: 0.83, 0.64, 0.66 |
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graham
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Joined: 21 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:57 am Post subject:
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:51:15 +0000, Peter H wrote:
| Quote: | If anyone has been able to get wine going properly and can give us less
experienced users some tips, it would be greatly appreciated. It's not
that I like windows, but I need Excel for compatability with work and would
rather not have to have a disk with windows on it :-)
Thanks all.
gnumeric will read and write exel files. |
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Peter H
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 3
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:58 am Post subject:
Re: about Wine
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Kevin Nathan wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:51:15 GMT
Peter H <pete@vicnet.net.au> wrote:
If anyone has been able to get wine going properly and can give us
less experienced users some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.
It's not that I like windows, but I need Excel for compatability with
work and would rather not have to have a disk with windows on it :-)
Typing 'wine' has worked for me. I think the config program is
'winecfg'.
As to Excel compatibility, have you tried OpenOffice.org's 'Calc'? That
has worked fine for me, so far -- although it may not work if the
spreadsheet has complicated macros or such . . .
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Thanks for the reply. Both Openoffice and Staroffice are excellent, but for
more advanced stuff they still can't hack it unfortunately. I may try
crossover office, but would just love to be able to do it with wine... oh
well, back to the drawing board |
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Vincent Lambert
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 13
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject:
Re: about Wine
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ghoulx wrote:
| Quote: | Vincent Lambert wrote:
I know it is installed but I have not been able to find it. In 8.2 there
was an icon available. I have tried 'wine program.exe' and get no
reults.When I look in yast it says it is installed. I tried taking it ou
and reinstalling it but to no avail
windows exe file, right click; open with: "wine", has worked for me from
7.3 on.
Now I am in trouble |
I opened "myComputer" right clicked on hda1 and then left clicked on
properties and put in wine to "open with"
Now it seems I cannot open "my computer" at all but instead get a message "
retrieving data from drives is not supported"
I guess from what I have read I have associated "myComputer " with wine and
need now to know how to unassociate it.
Please Help as I could,at least, before access the drive I had windows on
andcopy files to linux that I wanted to use. |
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Vincent Lambert
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 13
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:59 pm Post subject:
Re: about Wine
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Vincent Lambert wrote:
Now I am in trouble
I opened "myComputer" right clicked on hda1 and then left clicked on
properties and put in wine to "open with"
Now it seems I cannot open "my computer" at all but instead get a message
" retrieving data from drives is not supported"
I guess from what I have read I have associated "myComputer " with wine
and need now to know how to unassociate it.
Please Help as I could,at least, before access the drive I had windows on
andcopy files to linux that I wanted to use. |
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James Knott
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Posts: 1233
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Peter H wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for the reply. Both Openoffice and Staroffice are excellent, but
for more advanced stuff they still can't hack it unfortunately. I may try
crossover office, but would just love to be able to do it with wine... oh
well, back to the drawing board
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If all else fails, you can try something like Win4Lin or VMware, to run
Windows under Linux. Then you can run most Windows apps. |
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Jonathan McNeil Wong
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject:
Re: about Wine
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Peter H wrote:
| Quote: | Kevin Nathan wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:51:15 GMT
Peter H <pete@vicnet.net.au> wrote:
If anyone has been able to get wine going properly and can give us
less experienced users some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.
It's not that I like windows, but I need Excel for compatability with
work and would rather not have to have a disk with windows on it :-)
Typing 'wine' has worked for me. I think the config program is
'winecfg'.
As to Excel compatibility, have you tried OpenOffice.org's 'Calc'? That
has worked fine for me, so far -- although it may not work if the
spreadsheet has complicated macros or such . . .
Thanks for the reply. Both Openoffice and Staroffice are excellent, but for
more advanced stuff they still can't hack it unfortunately. I may try
crossover office, but would just love to be able to do it with wine... oh
well, back to the drawing board
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If you have Excel 2000 or higher, you will find that native Wine will
not work very well for you, especialy if your Excel spreadsheets use VBA
or complicated macros. The native Wine support is just not there yet.
For people who must use M$ Office in a production environment, I
recommend Codeweavers' Crossover Office. The software licensing cost is
modest, and Codweavers puts a portion of it back into Wine development.
The OpenOffice suite is coming along, but for people who must
interchange native Office files with clients, it doesn't work well enough.
--
Above intended as general commentary, not specific legal
advice. Your mileage may vary.
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Donahue, Gallagher Woods LLP Facsimile: 510-832-1486
P.O. Box 12979 http://www.donahue.com
Oakland, CA 94604-2979 E-mail: jonathan@donahue.com
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