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Subject: Re: wine still unusable?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanie" <stephanie@sosdg.org>
To: "Steve Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: wine still unusable?


> Steve Kargl wrote:
>
>>Perhaps, you should take up the challenge and port wine to amd64.  You've 
>>had over a year to study the problem.
>>
>>
>
> I appreciate your overconfidence in my abilities, but if it were within my 
> technical capabilities to fix, it would have been and patches would have 
> been submitted.
>
> Since its not, I'm still waiting on anyone that possesses the level of 
> knowledge required to fix the problem to actually do so.

You could try to install wine under linux emulation.  That is 32-bits and 
works for a lot of other things.