> I have a full Win 7 64 bit installation on wd0. > > Office 14 is in /Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office14/, > therefore I assume this is a 32 bit application. > > Would I be able to run it under Wine if I had a 32 bit installation > of Netbsd? Given that wine by itself works as one wants it to, and that you can use it to 32-bit Windows-Applications, it doesn't matter where they are installed. You need access to all DLL's the application is depending on, but if you can assure that, I think it should be possible. And yes, Windows 7 64-bit has two directories under which Software is installed. "Program Files" for 64-bit Software and "Program Files (x86)" for 32-bit Software. But the location of the files is not all you need. You also will most likely need access to registry-entries made by the installer. You might have some problems with them, especially as even the registry is split up in 64-bit (all normal trees) and 32-Bit Windows-on-Windows Subtrees. I don't know if MS Office makes use of those sub-trees, but be aware that they exist. See my blog-post about gnupg/sylpheed [1] for more information regarding this registry-issue. To avoid such problems, a new installation using wine might be wiser - but I don't know, I am by far no wine-expert. My last experiences with wine date back to 2005, and then I failed with using wine alone, so I bought CrossOver Office and use that to work with the Windows Applications I needed under Linux. There wasn't really much talk about 64-bit back then in the mainstream windows world :) - Volkmar -- http://www.dimensionv.de/ http://tech.nifelheim.info/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OpenPGP Fingerprint: E03D 33DB B409 2E99 C2DA 7D64 145F 0A76 D252 7078 Key: http://www.dimensionv.de/pgp (+ all public key-servers) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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