Wine and Mandriva
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From: Krister Hallergard on 2 Jan 2006 13:29 Why can I not get wine 0.9.3 to fuction well with Mandriva 2006, when I get it to function with other distros such as SuSE 10.0 and Fedora Core 4. To abandon Windows XP I do need to be able to access my old wk4-files. Actually did get Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97 to work with Fedora, but not in a stable way, so I went for Excel 97, which works perfectly and has filters for wk4-files, using winetools to install. But not with Mandriva. The setup.exe just wouldn?t do anything. Actually tried quite a few other programs with winetools that would not install on Mandriva: UltimateZip, Excel 97 Viewer, PowerPoint 97 Viewer to mention a few. However, Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 installed with Mandriva and so did PowerPoint Viewer 2003! Why does Mandriva not like wine? Krister Lytham UK
From: BillM on 3 Jan 2006 09:40 Krister Hallergard wrote: <snip> > To abandon Windows XP I do need to be able to access my old > wk4-files. Actually did get Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97 to > work with Fedora, but not in a stable way, so I went for Excel > 97, which works perfectly and has filters for wk4-files, using > winetools to install. But not with Mandriva. <snip> Did you look at OpenOffice.org - calc (version 2.0)? It is available for Windows and Linux at the cost of the CD's from Linux Central or CheapBytes -- or free if you download it yourself. It is very compatible for reading and/or writing *.xls (95 thru XP) It will also read/write files in Star Office and the new "Open File format" http://www.openoffice.org/ -- BillM
From: Krister Hallergard on 3 Jan 2006 09:53 BillM wrote: > Krister Hallergard wrote: > > <snip> > >>To abandon Windows XP I do need to be able to access my old >>wk4-files. Actually did get Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97 to >>work with Fedora, but not in a stable way, so I went for Excel >>97, which works perfectly and has filters for wk4-files, using >>winetools to install. But not with Mandriva. > > <snip> > > Did you look at OpenOffice.org - calc (version 2.0)? It is > available for Windows and Linux at the cost of the CD's from > Linux Central or CheapBytes -- or free if you download it > yourself. It is very compatible for reading and/or writing *.xls > (95 thru XP) It will also read/write files in Star Office and > the new "Open File format" > http://www.openoffice.org/ Thanks Bill, yes I like OpenOffice very much, for creating new spread sheets. But as far as I know you cannot open *.wk4-files, as there are no filters for that. I have 20 years of Lotus spread sheets, that I sometimes need to go back to.
From: freemont on 3 Jan 2006 10:12 On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:53:06 +0000, Krister Hallergard wrote: > BillM wrote: >> Krister Hallergard wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>>To abandon Windows XP I do need to be able to access my old wk4-files. >>>Actually did get Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97 to work with Fedora, but >>>not in a stable way, so I went for Excel 97, which works perfectly and >>>has filters for wk4-files, using winetools to install. But not with >>>Mandriva. >> >> <snip> >> >> Did you look at OpenOffice.org - calc (version 2.0)? It is available for >> Windows and Linux at the cost of the CD's from Linux Central or >> CheapBytes -- or free if you download it yourself. It is very compatible >> for reading and/or writing *.xls (95 thru XP) It will also read/write >> files in Star Office and the new "Open File format" >> http://www.openoffice.org/ > > Thanks Bill, yes I like OpenOffice very much, for creating new spread > sheets. But as far as I know you cannot open *.wk4-files, as there are no > filters for that. I have 20 years of Lotus spread sheets, that I > sometimes need to go back to. You should be able to convert the wk4 stuff into Excel format from within Windows, then go from there. Excel 97 includes this converter. -- "Because all you of Earth are idiots!" ?`?.??.???`?-> freemont? <-???`?.??.???
From: Krister Hallergard on 3 Jan 2006 10:26
freemont wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:53:06 +0000, Krister Hallergard wrote: > > >>BillM wrote: >> >>>Krister Hallergard wrote: >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>>To abandon Windows XP I do need to be able to access my old wk4-files. >>>>Actually did get Lotus 123 from SmartSuite 97 to work with Fedora, but >>>>not in a stable way, so I went for Excel 97, which works perfectly and >>>>has filters for wk4-files, using winetools to install. But not with >>>>Mandriva. >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>Did you look at OpenOffice.org - calc (version 2.0)? It is available for >>>Windows and Linux at the cost of the CD's from Linux Central or >>>CheapBytes -- or free if you download it yourself. It is very compatible >>>for reading and/or writing *.xls (95 thru XP) It will also read/write >>>files in Star Office and the new "Open File format" >>> http://www.openoffice.org/ >> >>Thanks Bill, yes I like OpenOffice very much, for creating new spread >>sheets. But as far as I know you cannot open *.wk4-files, as there are no >>filters for that. I have 20 years of Lotus spread sheets, that I >>sometimes need to go back to. > > > You should be able to convert the wk4 stuff into Excel format from > within Windows, then go from there. Excel 97 includes this converter. > Exactly, but I cannot start Excel with Mandriva. So maybe I should forget about Mandriva and use SuS2 10.0 for the future, as this works. I kind of liked Mandriva though. (oh, did you mean converting all my *.wk4 files to *.xls files - sure, but then I may as well stay with XP) |