Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 02:04:53 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: PTFD9100@beanstalk.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another reason to like FreeBSD Message-ID: <Sea1-F88KOBiJfm3ODu00018e59@hotmail.com>
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>On Mon, 5 May 2003 23:51:49 Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> wrote: > >Hello Michael, > >Monday, May 5, 2003, 11:14:25 PM, "Michael W. Holdeman" ><PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> > wrote: > > > Hi Clayton, > > Thanks, I was unable to get Wine ot run my apps, I realize they are > > making progress and I should retry soon. > > Win4lin is at www.netraverse.com > >You could look into vmware, that allows you to run Windows inside of >FreeBSD. > > > >Best regards, > Gabriel Sorry to hear the bad news Michael; luckily, according to Gabriel's post, hope is not lost entirely. (you can get the cvs of wine too, look here http://www.winehq.com/?page=cvs ) Failing all that, may I ask why you need the legacy app.s? Do you just have a ton of data in a certain format? Or just no suitable alternative available from ports? I only ask because, one of the first things I set out to do on my box was install wine and get my windows app.s working; I never really got around to it, because I consistently found similar or better software available through ports. In fact, I installed wine earlier today and really couldn't think of any app.s I wanted to run. (the flash thing kind of sucks..., otherwise my freebsd boxes are way more capable than any win. machine I had.) If the problem is data in some legacy format, you might check the conversion utilities in ports. Well, I hope you get it worked out. Or, that some crucial enhancement is coming to one of these projects sometime soon. Peace, Clayton PS. On a side note, I wonder if win4lin can be run via the compatibility libraries... Sounds contrived, but it may work... _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
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