From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 20:52:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239D01065675 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63418FC08 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7c13.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.124.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B829812883F; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:26:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB05E2E90F; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:25:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48A494CC.60704@vwsoft.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:25:48 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eculp References: <20080810204625.18453tshxwqgptkw@econet.encontacto.net> <78cb3d3f0808120238k163092bfw2e3f5b49a33c9773@mail.gmail.com> <20080813082735.113561o9a39zgwsg@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20080813082735.113561o9a39zgwsg@econet.encontacto.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1219350322.47721@r+5v1OjEGIwZwEzcLAVW8A X-MailScanner-ID: BB05E2E90F.97E7D X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: freebsd-emulation Subject: Re: Re: wine and MS InternetExplorer X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:52:23 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, eculp wrote: > Quoting Adrian Penisoara : > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp wrote: >>> Is there any way to get MS Internet explorer to work under wine. The >>> government here has some forms that require it and won't work with >>> firefox >>> or opera. The part that bothers me even more is that they seem to be >>> microsoft java apps. >>> >>> I see there is an iexplorer in the distribution and I added gecko >>> support >>> but still couldn't get more that a transparent box. >> >> There is the IEs4Linux project which theoretically could be used also >> on FreeBSD -- see the link below, follow the installation instructions >> and let us know what results you get. >> >> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/ >> >> Apparently there is no FreeBSD port for this at this time, but if it >> works for you then I guess it would make a really good candidate >> (especially for enterprise/office environments) > > Thanks, Adrian. I took a look at it yesterday but didn't have time to > install it. I'm downloading it now. It will be interesting to see if it > is complete enough to work with the government's windows centric forms. > I will post results to the list asap > > Thanks again, > > ed >> >> Regards, >> Adrian. >> > > ed, I'm running IE6 under wine for quite some time now. IIRC I've installed IE manually. Tried IES4Linux before and found it too difficult to patch as it's too Linux'ish (heavily Linux specific bash install scripts needs _a lot_ of tweaking). You may find instructions for installation on the net. Make sure, you're using latest wine and set the environment to Win98 for IE. Running such a crappy tool (IE) under FreeBSD seems to be braindead, but there are situations where there's no other way. BTW, check licensing issues first. HTH Volker