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New Feisty wine problem.
I've put Ubuntu on a machine for my daughter and owing to her high school's requirements, she has to use MS Word. So, I put wine 0.9.44 on it. Excel runs, MS Access runs, but WINWORD.EXE will not. I've tried uninstall/reinstall of Office 2000 SP 2 to no avail. I installed IE 6, but it just renders an empty page. I don't care about that, but I really need to get MS Word 2000 running on this box. I have very little experience with wine and none with Ubuntu. So, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Here's the error I get trying to run WINWORD.EXE

/path/to/office/wine WINWORD.EXE
err:module:map_image Could not map section .text, file probably truncated
err:module:map_image Could not map section .text, file probably truncated
wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\WINWORD.EXE": Bad EXE format for

TIA.

[Edit] sp. +
POWERPNT.EXE returns this error:

wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\POWERPNT.EXE": Bad EXE format for
bcnu,
Mikem

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Expand Edited by mmoffitt Aug. 27, 2007, 10:47:35 PM EDT
New Is VMWare an option for you?
GSX is free, but you gotta install Windows under it.
New Is Crossover Office an option?
Word 2000 is [link|http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1|claimed to run fine on it].

Word 2000 is also reported to work fine with [link|http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=67|Edgy and Wine 0.9.33].

Sorry I can't be more helpful. Good luck.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Try a German Red one, they're usually more docile. HTH!
But shouldn't this be in the "Epicuria" forum? :-)

(Sorry I can't help you at all with your real problem. :-[ )
New Is OpenOffice.org not an option?
Its Word compatibility is pretty solid these days.


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New Debug flags
wine --debugmsg trace+module winword.exe

May give a clue as to what Wine thinks is wrong.
New Thanks all.
VMware I could use, but don't want to. The real reason that I was initially trying to avoid OpenOffice (or AbiWord - which I think is easier to use and has a much cleaner UI) is that I didn't want her to have to learn two word processors (she'd be using MS Word at school, then home to saner software). Upon further reflection, however, I've decided to do this instead. I'm going to show her how to use AbiWord and OpenOffice and let her decide which one she wants to use. I'm writing the School Superintendent, the principal and everyone involved in K-12 education at the state level I can find and request that they allow their students to use OpenOffice. I'll also make the pointed remark that "it is the height of mismanagement of funding to be one of only two states that charge public elementary, middle and high school students book rental fees (sometimes for non-existent books) on the one hand, and give hundreds of thousands of dollars to Microsoft on the other."
bcnu,
Mikem

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New Seems a bit counterproductive
#1 - You are setting your daughter up for a fall. Are you willing to risk her getting bad grades for your cause? Simply using a non-approved program will probably do that.

#2 - The people who made the decision to use MS aren't real bright, but they ARE in trusted positions. You aren't. So your letter campaign will be tossed aside (best case), or used against your kid (worst case).

Do what I did when I thought the school board was doing something stupid in tech. Show up an a board of education public meeting. Make friends. Speak publicly, stroking their egos, while at the same time establishing your tech cred. Make a connection with a board member. Thought the member, push your agenda.

I found a board member that wasn't technical and was getting snowed by the IT crew. She latched onto me as her tech resource, and then we worked together.

Unless you are willing to invest the face time, the attendance time, and show that you are willing to hang out REALLY late into the evening when they vote on budget issues and don't want the public there, then you can be ignored.
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New Thanks for the advice.
Not.

First of all, I don't have two centuries to get all touchy feely with the idiots on the school board. Second, the worst thing that could happen to my daughter is that she'll have to learn two word processors.

"risk bad grades". Feh. My daughter is a straight A student who consistently scores highest in her school on the state exams.

Finally, don't ever, and I mean ever, even hint that I would put either of my daughters in harms way, fuckwit.
bcnu,
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New Kiss kiss
to you too.

Sigh.
     Feisty wine problem. - (mmoffitt) - (10)
         Is VMWare an option for you? - (crazy)
         Is Crossover Office an option? - (Another Scott)
         Try a German Red one, they're usually more docile. HTH! -NT - (CRConrad)
         Is OpenOffice.org not an option? - (pwhysall)
         Debug flags - (scoenye)
         Thanks all. - (mmoffitt) - (4)
             Seems a bit counterproductive - (crazy) - (3)
                 ayup, bigtime -NT - (boxley)
                 Thanks for the advice. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                     Kiss kiss - (crazy)

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