-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this > great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had > Windows on my box - and never will. > > But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started > in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program > called *Derive*. It's a math program from Texas Instruments and > I've visited their website just to find out it's a Windows app > only - no Unix/Linux version. > > Well, my daughters scuttled their preinstalled Windows-crap when > they bought their computers and are using Linux on a daily basis > with no problems insofar. So I told them - maybe a little too > enthusiastic - that Linux can do anything, including running > Windows applications through an emulator. > > So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. > This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine > setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a > *folder* for installation. The screen suggest strange *folders* > like *c:\programs* etc.. (???) - I don't have such *folders*, so > I typed : /usr/share/derive (having created that *folder* of > course. But the program doesn't seem able to find any *folders* > on my system, no matter what I type. > > The man pages for wine do not mention this problem, but I'm > confident some of you can help me out on this - probably very > trivial - hiccup. > > Thanks in advance > > Kaj Haulrich.
Perhaps you could try this other Wine http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/ But you have to uninstall the one you have before installing it. It has a GUI for setting things up. Good luck. Josenildo Marques -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/PXbP4eVBtrgQWDsRAvEbAJ43KKAftzz+ClnZP0HJ1uphs/GZpACfWl8d 0TJi5JTCjM3wz4FhKEuGdaM= =DBrZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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