Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 23:04:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine and PeeCee CD's?? Message-ID: <20000521230410.A22056@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <39289B40.B70865E0@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:28:16PM -0700 References: <200005211854.LAA21992@tera.com> <39289B40.B70865E0@3-cities.com>
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On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:28:16PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Well, after years of hesitation I've done it: I've sunk to
> > the depths of pond scum and bought myself some language CD's.
> > Of course these CD apps only run under M$***, so it means
> > using my wife's PC.
>
> There are some that are just audio CD's and these play with no
> problem. The others have a tight link to your sound card. You listen
> and then they copy your speech pattern. That gets a little rougher.
The `learn French' CD's I have present random series of
graphics and the audio. As for talking into a mike, no,
I have no interest in doing that. My interests are to
learn (or re-learn) vocab and grammatical syntax.
>
> >
> > But I'm wondering if WINE under SuSE (e.g.) would let me use
> > these CD's here and not fbother with the other toy OS. Seems
> > to me that since all of the binaries are on the CD that this
> > might be doable.
>
> One of them comes with a product called World Write, which gives you a
> silly^H^H^Hmple word processor. It isn't so simple because in the case
> of Spanish it converts several keys such as the "' key, which is just
> to the left of the enter key, to a two stroke key that creats two
> different types of accented letters. The ; key is already the enya
> (tilde n).
Hm, didn't think about the writing side of things, but this
would be a plus. (One thing I like about using the iso-8859
character set is being able to spell cafe as café. I
don't pretend to understand how this would be handled with
a foreign-language CD written for DOS going thru wine.
>
> I thought about wine and then multi-booted to 98se. It pretty well
> messes up 98 and no sense taking wine with it.
>
Sure. ---You had some wise words some months back, Kent:
use whatever tool best fits the task. Still , the idea
of using D/Win ..... well, I'd rather find a workaround.
thanks,
gary
--
Gary Kline
Cray Inc
Seattle, Washington
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