From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 22:16:00 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 27C3116A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:16:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from z.zorro.z@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31D143D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:15:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from z.zorro.z@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i16so26946wra for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:15:55 -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=ZfxRqrgi0nwfUdyOHjTfE60bajJjDnc7n8Hg4nhh7Up3qxAZJ5eUmlBh179vwuvnKCHXkzqFfE/uBl8n7ACiYS9FPIv5cpehtli6JtoGufUaN10N1BFX+BtaQ90XjrPpMb1t7yx2FMLlmYswZ2VewiEBK3+iZB1RnN83VJMj5l4= Received: by 10.54.6.75 with SMTP id 75mr3929262wrf; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.119.16 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:15:54 +0000 From: Zorro Super Hero To: jahnke@fmjassoc.com In-Reply-To: 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 22:16:00 -0000 one more hi to you Frank i find a nice manual in "winehq.com". http://winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/index Thank you for you'r help now i need some time to read it. Thank you ! On 8/26/05, Zorro Super Hero wrote: > 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 manue= l) >=20 > its my first time that i see the "wine". >=20 > and Thank you for you'r mail. >=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 wil= l > > 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 > > >