G'day, I've just begun reading man:wine <insert glazed-eyes smiley> and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview that perhaps I'm missing... I apologise if this is a really stupid question, but like several things when confronted with a totally new OS, if you're starting off with the wrong assumptions you'll just waste a lot of time.
Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux? Like: you can run a DOS session in a window in windoze, and I've heard you can emulate a PC on a Mac. If so, can you make the two "virtual machines" talk to each other? For example, Mandrake can't see files on the NTFS partition which Win2K is on, but if I had Windows running I could network across to it from Mandrake, just like it was on my laptop? Come to think of it, that's the next thing I'll try - to get Mandrake and the laptop [Win2K, again] talking to each other... TIA, again ;) -- Merlin Zener piano and synthesizer Pattaya, Thailand. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 25/02/2003
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