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From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro>
To: 'David Xu' <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>,
	Lanny Baron <lnb@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM>
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Subject: RE: running M$ based Accounting programs with Wine
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:59:33 +0200
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> 
> I don't think so,  WINE can mimic M$ GDI api, USER API, 
> Kernel API, but it can not mimic OLE and COM
> API,  it's too complex for WINE, many M$ programs use OLE and 
> COM, let them work under WINE is impossible.
> 
> David

I'm sure a saw some screenshots with VisualC and Excel running
under wine.  I was quite surprised when I saw that .. And this
two make use of COM/OLE, for sure ..

Anyway, programatically speaking, it shouldn't be that hard to
"port" the COM thing to other platforms (just some thoughts).

I didn't tried wine yet, and I dunno if i will try it soon ..
so, anybody here who use it ?!


stefan


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