From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 26 03:05:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E590C16A41F for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:05:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39FF43D76 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:05:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1056109nzo for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:05:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=WPivM2CaBE6lCNOyQ+be3EgWWd8riroAXBINlQy0EGQDz4S4CNRkRGoiLAG49nP6JRMR9rcAqYrNs6lsXIr7tG7/SHdWU8D31YeVxhAIMNarJtg5lkVnkPzaciIFpWMTm2cpkO98NZimjvJ6SXJwNX0j6kvpih2QyYJVisOL/9o= Received: by 10.37.15.25 with SMTP id s25mr2812215nzi; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?166.111.123.93? ( [166.111.123.93]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 34sm4525225nza.2005.12.25.19.05.00; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:05:03 -0800 (PST) From: Yuan Jue Organization: Tsinghua UNIV. To: "Jeff D. Hamann" Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 10:57:41 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <001e01c609b0$df892900$0a00a8c0@mothra> In-Reply-To: <001e01c609b0$df892900$0a00a8c0@mothra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512261057.41524.yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:05:15 -0000 On Monday 26 December 2005 08:11, you wrote: > Does OpenOffice have an Access replacement that can read/write M$ 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 :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue