On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:14:36 +0100, you wrote: > > > Hi Robert (Shearman) > > I took good notice of your last mail concerning my pb about wine and running > excel.exe. > > I usually get : > >> fixme:ntdll:NtConnectPort (0x40575a30,L"\\RPC > > and you said > > These are an example of Microsoft not documenting a whole set of functions > > to manipulate an NT primitive. They are part of an API called Local > > Procedure Call (LPC) and it is mainly used by RPC (the RPCRT4 DLL) to > > communicate between COM apartments on the same machine. > > In short, it is a known bug with Wine, but we haven't been motivated to both > > document and implement LPC yet. > > but then I wonder how some people do to get around this pb and can easily get > excel or word working... I guess there is a trick about the config file ! I > got to have ole32 and oleaut32 as native if I want People use the win98 dll's because the NT/2k/XP ole dll's cannot be used by wine (for reasons explained above). Others use a fake windows installation and then install the dcom98 package (also on your office CD), that does the same thing (install win98 ole* dlls). Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
