Re: Running FrameMaker on WINE or CrossOver Office on Linux

[Thomas Gier <thomas.gier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hedley_finger@myob.com.au wrote:

> All:
> 
> Has anybody tried running FrameMaker on WINE or CrossOver Office?  These
> are both Windows API emulators running on Linux that make applications
> think they are running in Windows.
> [...]

Hi,

there's no way of running FM6 or FM7 using wine or crossover office. FM6 
starts OK but crashes when you try to edit resp. save a file, FM7 
refuses to work due to "Missing version number in fmres.dll" (this is 
the original error message). This also has been a topic on a crossover 
mailing list some time ago [1].

You could use VMWare instead which emulates a complete PC (including 
disk, RAM, parallel ports, network cards ... you name it) inside your 
Linux system. VMWare needs a genuine Windows CD and a well equipped PC. 
The more RAM you assign to VMWare the better your virtual PC works. In 
general FM works flawlessly with VMWare.

HTH
-- 
Thomas Gier
Technical Writer

[1] http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail/discuss/2003-July/004516.html


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