On Friday 26 December 2003 08:58, David Baron wrote: > Wine is a very pesky utility. > > OK, stuff like windows solitaire and freecell run perfectly. MVP-Bridge > hangs up. So did a sound-card editing program but it did get my installed > MIDI devices correctly which nothing "native" has done so far. Once these > hangup, one must log out to get rid of their windows. Copernic web search > which runs off the IE com object hung the system. Big red switch and a real > scarey fsck session to recover--I mean heavy duty. > > Just as Windows requires a "pid" file to describe how to run a DOS program, > Wine needs such a descriptor to correctly run Windows programs in Linux. > ... and this might well vary from flavor to flavor and release to release.
Well I have no such descriptors for running Lotus Notes (the only Windows program I use) under Wine. I might add that I have been running Notes under Wine successfully on an otherwise Linux only laptop since september 2001. There are a few (very few) oddities, but nothing serious. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
