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Date:      Mon, 06 Mar 1995 08:49:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      LAJOIE@yalph2.physics.yale.edu
To:        root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   sigaltstack and WINE
Message-ID:  <01HNT5VNWBYIA732XO@yalph2.physics.yale.edu>

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I've gotten a lot of questions concerning Wine and FreeBSD 2.0R from by last post so 
I guess a general post is in order (but no answers on the sigaltstack question :-).

	Wine0302 (the latest version) will compile on FreeBSD 2.0R, the only hitch 
being the definition of the sigaltstack structure in FreeBSD (which differs in the 
FreeBSD manpage and in /usr/include/sys/signal.h!!) which can be fixed trivially in 
the Wine /loader/signal.c routine.  Compatability with FreeBSD has gotten much 
better over the past rew releases and someone is obviously working hard on it. 

	Wine will run some of the Windows applets.  Solitaire works fine, despite a 
Windows "Out of memory" message at startup.  Minesweeper works well, but Write eats 
up so much CPU that it darn near hange the system and Progman won't open the group 
files.  Some of the dialog boxes come out scrambled as well.

	As a demo of what can be done with some clever programming, Wine is really 
nice.  But it doesn't claim to be anything more that Alpha code and should be 
treated as such - don't expect to be running Word 6.0 any time soon!

	You can get Wine at sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine.


John Lajoie
Yale University Physics Department
lajoie@yalph2.physics.yale.edu




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