I have to admit I have not really used Wine for several years, and back then it worked just fine for running my statistical analysis software on a linux desktop. The two pieces of software I am using for a class I teach are Management Scientist (MS) and NCSS2007 (NCSS), both of which are stat packs so I (and my students) can analyze data. (Neither of these is supported software.) using crossover 8.0 on suse 11.1. Since I don't as a default use any of the microsloth office products I had not bothered to install any of them. Installed both MS and NCSS in their own bottles. Neither worked. On MS, it would first initialize and then when I would select a method of analysis I got a "Errror 339 Grid32.dll not found " error. Trying to start NCSS watched it simply fade away. No initialization screen or anything. When I tried things with the wine install from SuSE I got the same errors. Install MS on a Ubuntu (same machine, I simply have many OS's going.) using wine. Try to start MS using wine. No joy. Copy the folder containing all of the MS files to a folder on the ubuntu and then try to start the MS by simply typing wine MS.exe. Lo and behold it runs fine. Try same trick on SuSE. No dice. Install Microsloth Office 2007 in a bottle in crossover in Suse. Install MS in the office 2007 bottle. It now runs. We are now half way there. Try all of the above procedures with NCSS. No joy. Install NCSS in the MS Office bottle and try to run.... no joy. typed wine NCSS.exe (and wine start NCSS.exe) in a shell (just so I can see the errors.) this is what I got. ~/.cxoffice/Copy of MS Office 2007/drive_c/Program Files/NCSS2007> wine Ncss2007.exe err:module:import_dll Library Stamin32.DLL (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\rcaban\\.cxoffice\\Copy of MS Office 2007\\drive_c\\Program Files\\NCSS2007\\Ncss2007.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\rcaban\\.cxoffice\\Copy of MS Office 2007\\drive_c\\Program Files\\NCSS2007\\Ncss2007.exe" failed, status c0000135 The Stamin32.,dll file is in the bottle in drive_c/Windows/system32 I also copied the stamin32.dll and renamed it to Stamin32.DLL and Stamin32.dll and stamin32.dll and STAMIN32.DLL. No joy. So how can I get wine to figure out the file is there and usable. (Solving this would probably also fix the file not found error from the first try at installing management scientist in its own bottle. Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Professor of Marketing University of Arkansas @ Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu/~moodle
