Re: WINE - Does it actually work?
wine does work. It requires a lot of configuration. codeweavers sell a
dist of wine that easily runs ms office and ie.
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:52, Scarletdown wrote:
> Okay, how do I get Win-9x and DOS programs to run using WINE? When I
> installed Linux, WINE was allegedly set up; and from what I could
> determine, all I would have to do to run a program under it is click on
> its executable file.
>
> However, I have not been able to get anything to work with WINE this
> way. Every time I click on an .EXE file, WINE tries to run (there's a
> spinning hourglass icon in a minimized window for about 20 seconds), and
> then it quits with no warnings or other messages.
>
> The man pages are pretty useless, and I also had a look at the
> installation guide here:
>
> http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/applications/system/wine/wine-user/installing.html
>
> and found it to be no help either.
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