Microsoft Word Viewer

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Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 (Release Date: March 17, 1999)

Application Details:

Version:	97/2000 32 bit version
License:	Free to use
URL:	http://office.microsoft.com/do...
Votes:	Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating:	Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested:	3.19

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

Link How to obtain the latest Word Viewer (Article ID: 891090) Free Download Download Word 97/2000 Viewer (PCWorld) Free Download Download Word 97/2000 Viewer (Nkfd.org)

Test Results

Old test results

The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.

Selected Test Results

What works

Installation, viewing (DOC, RTF, TXT), printing (cups-pdf), various view modes.

What does not

The installer, setup.exe, doesn't exit due to what appears to be a deadlock between two threads:

…err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection … "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread #, blocked by #, retrying (60 sec)
…err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection … "syslevel.c: Win16Mutex" wait timed out in thread #, blocked by #, retrying (60 sec)

This repeats endlessly. Terminating "winevdm.exe …\Temp\MSE000\setup.exe" doesn't appear to negatively affect the installation.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Not all display options tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

App version 8.0.0.3920

Encountered only a single crash from loading a specific RTF file but the same occurs in WinXP.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 07 2018	3.19	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Jeff D. Hanson
Show	Fedora 9	Jul 15 2009	1.1.25	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 4.x "Etch"	Jan 26 2008	0.9.53.	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 22 2007	0.9.30.	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 4.x "Etch"	Jan 09 2007	0.9.28.	No	Not installable	No	Garbage	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
46113	Microsoft Word Viewer 97 setup doesn't exit	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

Do you get an error "There is not enough memory or disk space to run Word Viewer." ?
If so, then this probably means that it can't load a locale DLL:
It tries to load MSV7ENU.DLL, since it assumes English locale.
I guess you've got a different viewer version, so you should
export LANG=XXXXX
accordingly before starting wine, e.g. de_DE, en_US, fr_FR, da_DK and so on (as can be found at e.g. /etc/locale.gen)

Hang on installation?

Installation only seems to hang!

During install the setup seems to hang when "searching for installed components"
Just get yourself a coffee and let it alone. Setup will continue.

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