Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:30:15 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: running M$ based Accounting programs with Wine Message-ID: <438790437f44.437f44438790@marquette.edu>
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I've used Excel under WINE. However, you run into DLL errors every so often (very usable though). A couple of other times it has problems with fonts. But, like I said, overall very usable. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:59 am Subject: RE: running M$ based Accounting programs with Wine > > > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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