Re: [expert] wine

2003-10-19 Thread deedee
On 16 Oct 2003 23:42:52 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: So its try wine, the version I have is wine-20030115-4mdk, but I cant find the config file. Looks like it did'nt install. Where is the normal place for wine.conf in MDK ? and should it have installed the conf file when the rpm was loaded ?.

[expert] wine

2003-10-16 Thread Richard Bown
Hi all Trying to get a audio dsp analysis prog running the linux version is giving real grief, got it compiled, but its shutting down the graphics card and crashes the pc. So its try the win version,which wont run on win4lin. There's no support for input devices,a and it wont run on vmware on

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks darklord, If I can't get decent performance out of regular wine, I may have to pay for the wineX. Until then I'll struggle :) In any case, yesterday I re-built DRI (Xfree86 that is). It took ages (for some reason its make

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at 60fps; and kazaalite++ at the same time. What's great about linux is that

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:40 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at 60fps; and

[expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-13 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Hi there - I just installed the CVS version of wine, to my Mandrake 9.1 (with kernel 2.6.0test7), and noticed that OpenGL applications complain that 'that mode of openGL is not supported', regardless of which mode I use! Are there any known issues with our version of XFree86 or Wine perhaps?

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 13 October 2003 04:37 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hi there - I just installed the CVS version of wine, to my Mandrake 9.1 (with kernel 2.6.0test7), and noticed that OpenGL applications complain that 'that mode of openGL is not supported', regardless of which mode I use! Are there

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-13 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Thanks darklord, If I can't get decent performance out of regular wine, I may have to pay for the wineX. Until then I'll struggle :) In any case, yesterday I re-built DRI (Xfree86 that is). It took ages (for some reason its make program starts at the beginning after a failure; and I had a few

[expert] Wine setup

2003-09-07 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having difficulties I copyed the required dlls from my XP installation and used the latest version of wine from where the artical recommended. I managed to install Kazaa (some of the fonts were a bit funny) but it would just gointo debug mode

Re: [expert] Wine setup

2003-09-07 Thread |nSaNe
/ As to W.I.N.E I cant help because as I said I allways get stuck n it also. - Original Message - From: Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: [expert] Wine setup Hi I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having

[expert] Wine troubles

2003-07-23 Thread Ken Thompson
Hi all, I'm using -- Wine 20030115(stock install from 9.1) to try to run TotalA, it starts and the mouse is usable but there is no keyboard recognised. O/S is Mandrake 9.1 with updates Video is nVIDIA Gforce2 32Mb RAM Memory 512Mb. TotalA ran fine using Codeweavers 20020904 under Mandrake 9.0..

[expert] Wine problems installing almost any program

2003-06-23 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
Hi, I'm trying to install kazaa lite with the wine that comes with mdk 9.1, but when running the installer, after I select what I want to install, when the installation process starts copying the files, I get this error from kazaa installation process: C:\Program Files\Kazaa

RE: [expert] Wine access to printers

2003-06-03 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:21 PM To: Mandrake Expert Mail List Subject: [expert] Wine access to printers I am using: Mandrake 9.0 codeweavers-wine-20020904-7 Does anybody know how to all exel/winword to be able to access printers when being run from wine? I have installed the printer

Re: [expert] Wine access to printers

2003-06-02 Thread R N dev
I saw also that into ~/.wine/system.reg and ~/.wine/win.ini there is System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Printers section that is cups integrated, but for me it's not well working... --- Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2003 11:59 schrieb R N dev: I think

Re: [expert] Wine access to printers

2003-06-01 Thread R N dev
I think there is a section into ~/.wine/config file for printers but i've not tried to change it to know if it works for either network or usb printers (sure for parallel one). Angelo --- Michael Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using: Mandrake 9.0 codeweavers-wine-20020904-7 Does

Re: [expert] Wine access to printers

2003-06-01 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2003 11:59 schrieb R N dev: I think there is a section into ~/.wine/config file for printers but i've not tried to change it to know if it works for either network or usb printers (sure for parallel one). I have the following section in my .wine/config [spooler] FILE: =

[expert] Wine-20030115 winedefault.reg

2003-05-31 Thread Rob Lindsay
Have got all the required registry directories in my .wine/ except winedefault.reg. Is there a problem with the Wine-20030115 RPM that shipped with MDK9.1? Documentation suggests that you need config, system.reg, userdef.reg, user.reg, wine.userreg and winedefault.reg in the .wine/ file. I

[expert] Wine access to printers

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Noble
I am using: Mandrake 9.0 codeweavers-wine-20020904-7 Does anybody know how to all exel/winword to be able to access printers when being run from wine? I have installed the printer drivers to the win98. The printers show up when printing is selected but when told to print, excel/winword

[expert] Wine still broken

2002-03-12 Thread Lorne Shantz
Okay, I REALLY REALLY want to get WINE working. Perhaps a wine guru can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what is wrong with the distro. First, it is complaining about the filesystem type. It doesn't matter that it is actually ext2, or reisser (which it is), so why is it complaining? Second,

Re: [expert] Wine still broken

2002-03-12 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:59, Lorne Shantz wrote: Okay, I REALLY REALLY want to get WINE working. Perhaps a wine guru can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what is wrong with the distro. If it is the wine that came with 8.1, I had some problems with that package, solved most of them with a

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Can anyone help? Thanks minbari Hey, another B5 fan, eh? Cool. Anyways, if you are just wanting to start an application (for example Starcraft), then it would go

[expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread no ads
I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Can anyone help? Thanks minbari __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:48 am, no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Just do wine path and app name Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread mike
no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Can anyone help? Thanks minbari __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings!

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 07 February 2002 20:48, no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. You don't. Wine is not a complete emulation of the windows desktop: it is a way to run windows apps on the X11 desktop. So you now have to

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've had VMWare before. It's OK but on my laptop memory and hdd space are somewhat at a premium. Basically, VMWare is too much for my laptop but I just confirmed it, codeweavers wine works perfectly. I just downloaded the latest preview release (no. 5) and it runs mspaint, notepad, IE just

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Gérard Perreault
Or buy VMware Express. Just 39$. You can download a free 30 day trial of the full version. It runs M$ Office and most windows applications. The only ones I have not been able to run correctly are a few very video/sound intensive games. The VM in VMware stands for Virtual Machine and that is

[expert] Wine questions

2002-01-26 Thread James
All, I'm playing around with wine just to see what it can/can't do. I'm running on a dual boot box windows and mandrake 8.1. I've grabed the codeweavers wine rpm from their site. Here's the intresting parts. When from a term window I type # wine /mnt/win/Program\ Files/Internet\

[expert] wine and xfs

2002-01-18 Thread Oscar
Hi all, Somebody knows some way to avoid xfs eating tons of CPU while a wine app is starting? Thanks óscar. -- .-. oo| /`'\ Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 (\_;/) http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] wine

2001-12-19 Thread Onur Kucuk
MW On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:36:51 -0500 MW Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: will wine transfer a windows audio file to linux, and make it work? RB MW in a word, no. There are some things wine just won't do. Wine is an API emulator, it just makes

[expert] wine

2001-12-18 Thread Robert Boggs
will wine transfer a windows audio file to linux, and make it work? RB

Re: [expert] wine

2001-12-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:36:51 -0500 Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: will wine transfer a windows audio file to linux, and make it work? RB in a word, no. There are some things wine just won't do. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake

[expert] Wine vs. Wine: Which is Better?

2001-11-20 Thread Timothy R.Butler
Hi everyone, I haven't played around with the version of Wine included with MDK much, but I was wondering if anyone has noticed much difference in application support either way between the normal Wine that MDK includes and CodeWeavers WINE 1.0 Preview 4? Thanks, Tim --

Re: [expert] wine

2001-11-12 Thread kons Richard Bown
Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any windows system files.. Harold

Re: [expert] wine

2001-11-12 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Monday 12 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any

[expert] wine

2001-11-09 Thread Harold Hartley
I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any windows system files.. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] wine

2001-11-09 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about any windows system files.. Harold

Re: [expert] wine

2001-11-09 Thread Harold Hartley
Thanks Harold On Friday 09 November 2001 07:35 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Harold Hartley wrote: I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under wine.. The winaprs has all its own files

[expert] wine and spanish

2001-08-22 Thread Oscar
Hi, How can I get accents (like á, é, í and so on) with programs that run under wine? (for spanish language) for example: técnico instead of t'ecnico Thanks óscar. Hola, ¿Alguien sabe cómo conseguir que los acentos se escriban correctamente en los programas que se ejecutan bajo wine?

[expert] wine serial port config

2001-07-13 Thread Jim Dewar
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit the one app that i use which needs serial port access, i had to change the owner of the port from uucp to my user group. i don't know if there are any bad implications of this (

Re: [expert] Wine without Windows...

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Rambo
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, I understand that it is possible to run Wine without having Windows installed previously... Has anyone done this? And if so, how is it working out? With which applications? Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera If you mean without

Re: [expert] Wine without Windows...

2001-06-18 Thread dany allard
Vincent It has been a while since I looked at Wine but if I can remember correctly it can run without having windows installed. Also you should be able to run simple windows programs. (Programs that do not rely on the OS too much). Hope this helps Dany Allard Vincent A. Primavera wrote:

Re: [expert] Wine without Windows...

2001-06-18 Thread Al Andersen
It can be done, but they have to be simple programs. Old 16-bit apps work very well, like Freecell, Free Agent (still *the* best news reader), etc. -Al Vincent A. Primavera wrote:  Hello,     I understand that it is possible to run Wine without having Windows  installed previously...  Has

Re: [expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running,but without any window

2001-02-17 Thread Mike MacCana
The cure is to run wine with the `--managed' option. Mike Cecil Watson wrote: Try running it as another user... Good luck, Cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very

Re: [expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running,but without any window

2001-02-16 Thread Cecil Watson
Try running it as another user... Good luck, Cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very well and today, when I run the notes.exe file, the application is running (with wine), but

Re: [expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running, but without any window

2001-02-16 Thread Woody Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very well and today, when I run the notes.exe file, the application is running (with wine), but without any window. I've uninstalled and

[expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running, but without any window

2001-02-15 Thread vmalep
Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very well and today, when I run the notes.exe file, the application is running (with wine), but without any window. I've uninstalled and reinstalled wine (windows user reflex),

Re: [expert] Wine (Was windows media player)

2001-01-26 Thread Ron Heron
How is your wine set up? Do you just run apps, or do you use wine to access an installed win95? Also, which version are you using? I love wine, and use it for running WinVN. How did you install the media player. I can't get it to run. Windows Media Player works fine here. I use Codeweavers

Re: [expert] Wine (Was windows media player)

2001-01-26 Thread Zeljko Vukman
On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote: How is your wine set up? Do you just run apps, or do you use wine to access an installed win95? Also, which version are you using? I love wine, and use it for running WinVN. How did you install the media player. I can't get it to run. Windows

[expert] Wine install

2000-11-07 Thread Jim Fritz
When I try and install wine, it fails at the point where the config file is set. It states: /usr/X11R6/bin/wine-config: test: too many arguments sed: -e expression #1, char 28: Unterminated `s' command Any suggestions? -- Thanks, Jim Fritz, President FH SoftHouse, Inc. 603 East 16th

[expert] Wine

2000-09-04 Thread Mogens Jæger
Hey list Since I have upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 (from 7.0) I can't use my homebanking program, because the program - or is it Wine - can't get access to the modem. I have not changed anything in my setup (and as you can see, my internet access works), and I have chown'ed the /dev/modem to user

[expert] Wine

2000-05-30 Thread Sparks, Charley
I really don't want to spend any money to run Windoze apps.. are there any good "How tos" or FAQs on Wine ? I have not had much luck with it TIA Charley

[expert] wine-mailing-list ?

2000-05-10 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi, am looking for a wine-mailing-list. Have tried the news.group, but seems too complicated. Or is somebody there, who can explain it, how to start some questions as easy as here ? thanks in advance hans schneidhofer

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 10/04/00 21:10, Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. Sometimes there are apps that only

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Corbeil
Mike Fieschko wrote: [snip] That is (was) WABI. Caldera were distributing WABI v2.2, and maybe still are. I believe MS Windows 3.11 apps (some) were the last ones supported. Yes, you're right. WABI now rings a historical bell. MS Win3.x apps were all I needed the emulator for, and

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-12 Thread Jeanette Russo
I think you mean WABI which is no longer being developed Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Mike Corbeil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator I thought WINE was what's been used

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Andrew George
Umm guys (and gals) just my 2 cents but this conversation is getting kind of pointless (especially on a list like this) WINE is a great product whatever it's called, but surely you can all discuss this off list without subjecting the rest of us to the bandwidth bloat? Thanks Andrew On Tue, 11

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Jeanette Russo
Lucky you about the only thing I have been able to get to run under wine is Forte Free Agent 32bit Jeanette - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Jim Hodgers
At 04:02 PM 04/10/2000 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Cause there's a few DARN nice programs that are ONLY available under Windoze -- Forte Agent is one that comes to mind immediately. Although I haven't yet run Agent under Wine, I would LOVE to be

RE: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
B (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Jim Hodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator At 04:02 PM 04/10/2000 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Aldrich [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: LOL!! I'm sorry but I just can't imagine a real windblows program that's stable. I've found four in six years that I consider reliable. I think it's kind of a sad epitaph for a OS that coulda, whoulda, shoulda been great, but failed miserably due to ego and

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote: Lucky you about the only thing I have been able to get to run under wine is Forte Free Agent 32bit Haven't tried ityet. :-) That's one reason I keep my Windows machine around. :-) John

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Corbeil
I thought WINE was what's been used on Solaris for several years, but may be confusing it with another MS Windows emulator for Unix, or Solaris anyway. mike John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote: Lucky you about the only thing I have been able to get to run under wine is

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Mike" == Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike I thought WINE was what's been used on Solaris for several Mike years, but may be confusing it with another MS Windows Mike emulator for Unix, or Solaris anyway. [snip] That is (was) WABI. Caldera were distributing WABI v2.2,

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Michael Holt
I concede - rather, I give up - who really cares? Russ Johnson wrote: Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for. To emulate, aren't you faking it? If they don't fake it, but actually have the APIs, then it's not emulation, it's real. Hence, not emulation. If it

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator. Tom Russ Johnson wrote: Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Michael Holt wrote: I concede - rather, I give up - who really cares? You're not a technician, are you? Terminology matters. If it's not consistent, people make mistakes and things go boom (just ask the Jet Propulsion Laboratory). I understand the distinction between emulator and API.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
Well is it an adaptor or an emulator? On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Tom Berkley mewed: Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator. Tom Russ

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when run under Linux? Pj

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Mage Grimau
Not as badly. A lot of Windows apps crash when they call system services, not from their own bugs. --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great

RE: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Steven Smith
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Bug Hunter
In brief, yes. However, it won't take the OS (Linux) with it, in most cases. Today, many crashes in windows forces a reboot. Not so under wine. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Pj wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Of course, but at least it won't take the entire machine with it. Pj wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. Bill Beauchemin Sunnyvale MDC Control Center GlobalCenter (a Global Crossing company) 888-541-9888

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. 'Cause there's a few DARN nice programs that are ONLY available under Windoze

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
LOL!! I'm sorry but I just can't imagine a real windblows program that's stable. I've found four in six years that I consider reliable. I think it's kind of a sad epitaph for a OS that coulda, whoulda, shoulda been great, but failed miserably due to ego and greed, imho. Pj John Aldrich wrote:

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
The reason that *anybody* would care ('cause I'd imagine that by the end of the thread a lot of people were wondering the same thing) is because the original post was discussing the speed of execution. An emulator is inherently slow; an API is not. However, if you want to run no Windows

[expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Ron Stodden said: Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux implementation of the Windows Application Program Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation. Well, I'm sure that's true of

[expert] Wine Help

2000-04-09 Thread Ivan Trail
Where can one go to get help configuring wine to work on my system? Are there any How to or mailing lists? Thanks. Ivan

Re: [expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Lane Lester wrote: Ron Stodden said: Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux implementation of the Windows Application Program Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation.

Re: [expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Stephen F. Bosch said: Windows Tetris runs great in Wine! *LAUGHS* grin -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

RE: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-09 Thread Russ Johnson
Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for. To emulate, aren't you faking it? If they don't fake it, but actually have the APIs, then it's not emulation, it's real. Hence, not emulation. If it was hardware, then I'd say it had to be emulation. Since we're talking

Re: [expert] WINE -- Instructions, anyone?

1999-10-24 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:57:17AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: I am very pleased to see that Mandrake comes with an rpm for WINE. I would really appreciate it if someone could give me an illustration of how to actually install and use an application on Wine. If you need general informations

[expert] Wine and Connection Refused by Xserver

1999-09-29 Thread Eric Peters
Hello All, I'm new when it comes to X and wine but everythime i try to run wine and any dos program i get a connection refused by X server any ideas? Eric Peters -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 http://www.geekcode.com/ GCS d s: a- C+++ U P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o+ K w+++ O- M--

[expert] Wine does not work. Help needed...

1999-08-18 Thread Zilvinas Atkociunas
Hello, Does someone know why I can not run wine (wine-990518-3mdk, wine-debug-990518-3mdk) on venus ? Following are results of my attempt to run well known app: [root@tomato ttf]# wine /msdos/windows/sol.exe Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect

Re: [expert] Wine does not work. Help needed...

1999-08-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Zilvinas Atkociunas wrote: Hello, Does someone know why I can not run wine (wine-990518-3mdk, wine-debug-990518-3mdk) on venus ? Following are results of my attempt to run well known app: [root@tomato ttf]# wine /msdos/windows/sol.exe Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib:

[expert] Wine does not work. Help needed...

1999-08-18 Thread Al Smith
I take it you are sending the display from one machine to another? First thing you have to do is export the display, which it looks like you did. Next is to add the entry to your xhost file. You can do this by using the command: xhost + (which will exporting from any host without any