Re: [school-discuss] Worldbook under Wine

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Jim Thomas wrote:

> Once I ran the installation, subsequent attempts to run the application
> failed after painting the main menu window, complaining that it couldn't
> find the "DAO jet/db engine".  I don't know what that is, so if anyone
> has any ideas, I'd like to hear them. When I click OK on the error
> window, the main menu window slowly fades and the app terminates.
>
> The CD has a DAO directory with a setup.exe in it.  I couldn't run that
> setup.exe under wine either (same error, no suprise).  So I went back to
> my windows box and ran it.  It didn't ask any questions - it just did
> its business and exitted so quickly I couldn't tell what it did.  I used
> the MS find utility to look for new/recently altered files, but nothing
> obvious popped out.

" Unable to initialize DAO/Jet db engine"

From the beast itself:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q168004

Also take a look at these links:

http://www.a2zwaresolutions.com/faqinstl.htm
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52267


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