From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 16:10:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA29259 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:10:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA29237 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d66.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.66]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA12587; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:03:33 +1100 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA00616; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:00:36 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199801060000.LAA00616@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:00:36 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Who uses the wine port? -- results... To: leec@adam.adonai.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 3 Jan, Lee Crites (AEI) wrote: > One of my whopping six respondents asked me to publish my > results to the list, so here they are: > > -- 2 use it for a single application, and only when they have to > > -- 1 was interested in trying > > -- 3 wanted to know my results > > I received two additional replies to my original email, both of > which were pointers to how I can use my scanner (thanks!). > > It seems, then, from the rather underwhelming response, that wine > really isn't used that often. I'm still going to plow ahead with > it, though. If I get some clients who want to convert from > windoze to a real os, they might still need to have access to > some of the old applications. I've been using wine to run the Windows NT version of the Motorola DSP assemblers with considerable success. The console-mode code is not complete enough to run the simulator, but at least now I can edit and make from unix. Unfortunately the Domain Technologies Link-56k in-circuit emulator/debugger does not run in the version I'm running (970720), probably because it does naughty serial port stuff, so I still have to boot to windows to do real development. Gnnagh! (Note: the DOS version of the Moto assemblers doesn't even work under DOS some of the time: help line response: use the NT version...) The windows version of the Microchip PIC16c622 assembler works well too. This isn't a command line thing: it pops up a little progress meter window, which is kind of neat. Word-6 runs pretty well. Well enough to read documents e-mailed by the uninformed, anyway. Apart from development tools such as the ones I've mentioned, there isn't anything that I need windows for, so I don't need Wine any more than that. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson