From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 9:30:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E6037B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:30:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G6YJAF00.AOC; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:30:15 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: Stefan KORONKA , questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <438790437f44.437f44438790@marquette.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:30:15 -0600 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: RE: running M$ based Accounting programs with Wine X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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