From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 18:53:29 1999 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 EE97615264 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07726; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:53:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA08622; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905110153.SAA08622@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: WINE In-Reply-To: <19990511103439.S22791@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 11, 99 10:34:40 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > On Monday, 10 May 1999 at 10:28:58 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > Before I forget this question (again!), let me toss > > it out there to the WINE-savvy. > > > > If I buy a dictionary on CD, like the OED, I'll have > > a DOS/Win version. Can I use WINE to turn a DOG > > CD into something I ccan use on my FBSD platform? > > No. The best you could do with WINE would be to run OED's proprietary > software. I don't know if you will be successful, but it's > conceivable. > Hm, another thought was to buy the OED and data-mine on my wife's PeeCee. But that might take months. Pat Cassidy and I (mostly Patrick) have been working away at the monster 1913Websters; upgrading it with WordNet. So that may the better way. Too bad Websters or Oxford won't do a Linux port... gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message