FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K

[Yuan Jue]

On Monday 26 December 2005 08:11, you wrote:
> Does OpenOffice have an Access replacement that can read/write M$ access
> files that can use VBA? I'm guessing not ready for prime time just yet and
> until *nix get's one (with that cute little VBA debugger), then the rest of
> us non-server-development-types will be stuck with our less savy co-workers
> that use Excel and Word for *ALL* their computing needs. It's no good to be
> the leader if nobody's willing to follow...
>
> If you can figure out how to get Office XP working with FreeBSD 6.0, please
> let me know.

sorry, i don't know much about office in Wine.
Wish you can get it work :)

anybody else knows about it?

>
> On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:48, you wrote:
> > Merry Christmas!
> >
> > Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression
> > from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without
> > any
> > problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on
> > FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I
> > gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 -
> > unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98
> > mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it
> > gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a
> > 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is
> > shown,
> > but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence
> > the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In
> > win98
> > mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then
> > had to kill wine to close the program.
> >
> > Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would
> > appreciate some tips or hints.
>
> why not try openoffice? just a work around :)

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Best Regards.
Yuan Jue