on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:59:45PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) wrote: > dear all, > > as i understand it, wine comes with its own libraries which implement the > win32 API. Yes. > i also understand that if we somehow have access to a windows CD, all legal > issues aside, we can use files off windows to make wine work even better. Yes. > how can i do this? is there a debian specific way of doing this? Answering the second question first: not that I'm aware. I'd perform an installation of the legacy MS Windows OS into a separate partition, mount this someplace (I usually choose /mnt/windows). In the 1.x release of Wine (yes, it *is* a production release now), you can specify where things live in the configuration dialog (you'll need the winesetuptk package for this). In older versions, this is configured in your /etc/wine.conf file. My experience was that WINE support through MS Office 97 was pretty reasonable. Some things work (Word, Excel), some things don't (Access). Impressive, in the way a dancing dog is. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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