Re: Using Wine to do my Tax (Australia)

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 07/30/2007 05:35 AM, Keith Bates wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I wonder if anyone using the Australian Taxation Office's infamous
> e-tax package has been able to get it going under wine.
>
> I'm using debian testing and have just downloaded wine from the
> repository. I've configured wine (mostly using the defaults) and
> tested it running notepad and the winfile file manager.
>
> I've downloaded the e-tax 2007 package from 
>
> http://ato.gov.au/content/downloads/etax2007/etax2007_1.exe
>
> I installed the application successfully, but after completing the
> first page and pressing "Next" I got the following error message:
>
> Error saving data: Access violation at address 0055521C in module
> 'etax2007.exe'. Read of address 00000008
>
> I've made sure that every folder and file in my .wine folder has 777
> permissions, but I still get the error.
>
> I've done a search of both the wine site and the internet but haven't
> been able to find a solution.
>
> Does anyone know how to get the program to work? Or will I have to
> comply with the ATO's "Windows only" agenda?
>
> Thanks!

It partially seems to work for me.

I entered a file name and an example TFN on the first screen, and it 
lets me get into the other screen where I see Michael D'Ascenzo 
introducing the program. I've visited these pages "Our commitment to 
you," "Welcome," "Getting around etax" and "Using the navigator in etax."

I'm running under this software:
Debian 3.1 i386
wine 0.0.200503
wine-utils 0.0.200503

(I'm not Australian.)