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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: Curious about Wine (was: Re: wine error messages)
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> I never tried this Wine stuff. Does this mean you have to have a Win 9x
> installation including Word, then you mount this slice in FBSD, cd to it and
> run it?
> Is it possible to run it without a Win9x installed on the machine, just
> plain FBSD? What about NT instead of Win 9x?
> Will Word 6 do better or worse than Word 95/97 ? I always thought Wine would
> emulate Win 3.x  (so only 16bit software, no 32bit).
> Is there some documentation about the status of the Wine emulation?

I am just trying it today. So far, I got the three games and a calculator
(freecell, solitarie, calc, winmine) in Windows 98 working. You can mount
the FAT32 partition and run these games from there.

-Zhihui



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