http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3921
Summary: MS Office 97 (winword,powerpoint) crash with unhandled page fault Product: Wine Version: 0.9.2. Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: winehq@richardneill.org
In both 0.9.1 and 0.9.2, all the MS Office 97 applications crash. They start up perfectly fine, and just at the moment when one is about to heave a sigh of relief (about 6 seconds after starting the program), the application vanishes!
Wine gives the following error. I can attach a log if you like.
wine .wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office/powerpnt.exe fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub [repeats 4 times] fixme:wave:wodOpen unimplemented format: WAVE_FORMAT_ADPCM wine:Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x01cc0000 at adddress 0xb7df2333 (thread 000a), starting debugger... fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub WineDbg starting on pid 0x8 Unhandled exception on read access to 0x01cc0000 in 32-bit code (0xb7df2333). In 32 bit mode. Register dump ...
I installed this using the latest winetools, and installed SP2 of Office 97, although this problem was still true with SP1 in wine 0.9.1. Incidentally, Photoshop7 still works great. Also, you have very nearly got GoogleEarth to work!