From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 18:02:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA16096 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 18:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-23.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16090 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 18:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA18188; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 18:03:49 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 18:03:48 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Larry S. Marso" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can i run some windows95 programs In-Reply-To: <19971221205619.34253@panix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:54:34PM -0800, Alex wrote: > > > > stage, but it works fairly well, and even runs WinWord. > > Are you serious? Does it run Excel? (The later is the only *must* run M$ > app for me, professionally. Yes, I've seen many reports that it runs WinWord, however to do that one probably needs a fair share of MS dll's as some of the emulated copies are fairly broken. I personally haven't tried either word or Excel, but it's reasonably fast, and probably worth a try. Chances are you'll need to recompile your kernel (with options USER_LDT in your config file). I personally haven't used wine in a long time, but snapshots are made about twice a month. > Is there a site with alleged compatibilities listed? I've long lost the url, but wine itself is on sunsite (/pub/Linux/ALPHA/developtment or something like that), and its newsgroup has a low noise ratio. - alex