[Bug 5040] unable to install Windows version of matlab v7.0.4 with Wine

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040

[e-mail] changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|                            |1

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-22-04 15:23 -------
I can repeat this running the setup.exe on a cd marked "Mathworks_R14_1"
and wine 0.9.12 or so. The exact error is

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
        at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.createZoneInfo(Unknown Source)
        at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.getZoneInfo(Unknown Source)
        at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.getTimeZone(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.TimeZone.setDefaultZone(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.TimeZone.getDefault(Unknown Source)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.initialize(Unknown Source)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.mathworks.installer.util.debugLevelZero(util.java:1432)
...

The same array-out-of-bounds problem has been reported before; see
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2006-January/020203.html
Hmm.  A demo for that class is online at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/simpleDateFormat.html
Maybe I'll go try that...