From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 22:08:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C991716A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:08:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from z.zorro.z@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4096B43D48 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from z.zorro.z@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 55so237054wri for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:08:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dIp1gM9snTBNTm+0m7R+526Ttr6OEVuaORdzpfhQoDOvN1EvI6SQjWW6oBNO03W5AmC3HYF2Gre4a69GEtNkLo4d2X2pmzRlis7E414NxQ5gwR9+ZccW2rKfvlVItoQk0HMFb3ah3lk3VUc1iXh5NTvI8pcdvb70J2YjErRk3IQ= Received: by 10.54.56.47 with SMTP id e47mr3146269wra; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.119.16 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:08:01 +0000 From: Zorro Super Hero To: jahnke@fmjassoc.com In-Reply-To: <1125090538.636.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1125090538.636.12.camel@localhost> Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:08:04 -0000 hi Frank i just install "wine" version 20050310 like Alex tall me befor. (Alex - a nice man that help me and tall me to install it frome the port's that come with Freebsd ) its installd and now i need to know how to install Office or any other windows program. do you know any good manual that i can get and read (a step by step manuel)= =20 its my first time that i see the "wine". and Thank you for you'r mail. On 8/26/05, Frank Jahnke wrote: > Wine is a difficult program to use, particularly on FreeBSD. =20 >=20 > Please note first that it is in the FreeBSD ports collection > (/usr/ports/emulators/wine), and not of the CD. That version should be > 20050725. You should patch it according to > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-July/001181.htm= l > ; that will get rid of a heap error you will otherwise get. >=20 > So far colleagues and I have a few successes. Photoshop 7 runs very > well, as does Acrobat 4.0 (note: not the Reader, but Acrobat), but not > the distiller. I almost have Excel and Word from Office 2000 working, > but there are a few major bugs, like the ability to save a file (!). > Excel in particular works very well otherwise. =20 >=20 > I have fiddled with the installation so much, though, that I'm not sure > I'd be able to reproduce the steps so you could install it. I suppose I > will have to reinstall Wine and try a second time once it works. >=20 > Finally, I am initiating a petition encouraging CodeWeavers to release > CrossOver Office on FreeBSD. It will be announced next week, and I will > post a copy of the announcement here. =20 >=20 > After working with Wine a bit, I find it frustratingly tantalizing, but > very difficult to get just right. The documentation, such as it is, is > awful. So a professionally-supported product would be a great help, I > think. >=20 > Frank >=20 >