From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 23: 4:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907E537BB1C for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18191; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id XAA22062; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 23:04:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kent Stewart Cc: Gary Kline , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine and PeeCee CD's?? Message-ID: <20000521230410.A22056@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <200005211854.LAA21992@tera.com> <39289B40.B70865E0@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <39289B40.B70865E0@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:28:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message