[CLUE-Tech] Anyone Running Wine?

[Keith Christian]

Hi Jed,

I've seen references stating the apps (Word, etc.) should be installed under
Wine (e.g. setup.exe) for best results.  I've not tried any Office 97 stuff
(but want to, when I get time.)

For kicks, I ran "Xenu's link checker" under the same version of Wine (also
under RedHat 8.0) and Xenu ran fine.  I tried that to verify Xenu's author's
claim that it would run under Wine.  His excuse for not creating a Linux
version.

WinZip 8.1 installed under Wine with no observable errors.  FWIW, I've
installed DOSEmu and FreeDOS under RedHat 8.0, and with a 4DOS shell, that
also runs very well.

======Keith


--- "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks.
> 
> I decided to see if I could get Wine working. Not the Crossover or WineX
> versions -- just plain old Wine. So I grabbed an RPM from rpmseek for RH
> 8.0 (the 20020605 version). It installed just fine. As a quickie
> smoke-test, I fired up notepad. Other than waaaay too many "fixme" errors
> about font metrics (no surprise, I guess), it ran.
> 
> But it won't successfully install any software, AFAICT. I tried:
> 
>  + Corel PhotoPaint7
>  + Word97
>  + Eudora 5.2.1
>  + Pegasus 4.2
> 
> Varying errors and problems; mostly missing DLLs.
> 
> The Pegasus install failed on trying to read files from the "E:" drive.
> Since the CDROM is mapped as D:, and E: points to /tmp, I dunno what it,
> or Wine, was thinking there.
> 
> The Corel install was strange, in that the component selection "tree"
> widget would resond to mouse clicks only for expand/contract of tree
> elements, and highlighting. It would not respond to mouse clicks to
> [de]select components. There were also some mapping problems, where one
> widget would overlay a portion of some other widget.
> 
> The Eudora install actually triggered an exception, bringing up the
> WindeDBG window. But it wouldn't accept keyboard focus.
> 
> So, I'm curious if anyone is successfully using the vanilla Wine for
> anything?
> 
> jed
> -- 
> ... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
> facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
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