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After working with GCK2.5 under wine I have identified more bugs that make the program quit unexpectedly. However, now I have not been using cross-over office (as its evaluation period has expired and of course my boss wouldn't spend a cent for Linux programs). So I am using the default installation of wine that comes with Suse 9. I copied over the fake windows directory from the former .cxoffice directory. The following bugs do exist (they always appear when a window opens that requires you to enter alphanumeric values via the keyboard):

I figured out (hopefully correctly) that owner, group and accession rights to files and directories on an smbmount are not changeable, not even by root. Thus you have to specify everything at mount time, e.g.:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=jeltsch,credentials=/home/jeltsch/.smbpasswd5 -o uid=backuppc,gid=users,fmask=644,dmask=755 //patolmac217/jeltsch /mnt/jeltsch@patolmac217.hi.helsinki.fi

I got a bit confused about the ps2pdf conversion utility. Some people claim, that it invariably creates pdf files with letter pagesize. However there is the argument -sPAPERSIZE=a4 and that should make pdf files with a4-sized pages. It apparently works. If one uses eps files as input files, ps2pdf puts the eps image directly to the border of the pdf file which gets cut off during printing. There should be some utilities to correct this.