Re: Wine - Does it actually work?
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:58, David Baron wrote:
> Wine is a very pesky utility.
>
> OK, stuff like windows solitaire and freecell run perfectly. MVP-Bridge
> hangs up. So did a sound-card editing program but it did get my installed
> MIDI devices correctly which nothing "native" has done so far. Once these
> hangup, one must log out to get rid of their windows. Copernic web search
> which runs off the IE com object hung the system. Big red switch and a real
> scarey fsck session to recover--I mean heavy duty.
>
> Just as Windows requires a "pid" file to describe how to run a DOS program,
> Wine needs such a descriptor to correctly run Windows programs in Linux.
> ... and this might well vary from flavor to flavor and release to release.
Well I have no such descriptors for running Lotus Notes (the only Windows
program I use) under Wine. I might add that I have been running Notes
under Wine successfully on an otherwise Linux only laptop since september
2001. There are a few (very few) oddities, but nothing serious.
David
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