Re: wine and IE

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

I'd be shocked if IE worked reliably under wine, but would also be happy
to find out otherwise. My experience is that MS apps are the worst trying
to run under wine (presumably because of "undocumented" OS features).  If
I were in your shoes I'd spring for a copy of VMWare and run a virtual
machine for testing.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

> I'm a freelance web designer/programmer, and until recently I had a
> machine I could dual boot into Windows in order to test on IE, Netscape
> (for Windows -- it *DOES* display differently than on linux), Mozilla
> (again, same thing), and Opera... that is, until the mobo died on me,
> possibly taking out the CPU and RAM.
> 
> I've been having problems with one of the sites I maintain, and have
> isolated the problems to version 5.x of IE -- and would, understandably,
> like to test my reworkings.
> 
> Last I tried wine, it typically locked up my computer (but that may have
> been the programs I was trying to utilize), but I *do* recall getting at
> least solitaire working with it, so I know it *can* work.
> 
> Has anybody on the list gotten IE to work under a normal wine install?
> Is it possible to get different versions to work under different install
> directories (this would be IDEAL!)? Would you be willing to give me some
> pointers? 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> matthew@weierophinney.net
> 
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