hi Frank i just install "wine" version 20050310 like Alex tall me befor. (Alex - a nice man that help me and tall me to install it frome the port's that come with Freebsd ) its installd and now i need to know how to install Office or any other windows program. do you know any good manual that i can get and read (a step by step manuel) its my first time that i see the "wine".
and Thank you for you'r mail. On 8/26/05, Frank Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wine is a difficult program to use, particularly on FreeBSD. > > Please note first that it is in the FreeBSD ports collection > (/usr/ports/emulators/wine), and not of the CD. That version should be > 20050725. You should patch it according to > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-July/001181.html > ; that will get rid of a heap error you will otherwise get. > > So far colleagues and I have a few successes. Photoshop 7 runs very > well, as does Acrobat 4.0 (note: not the Reader, but Acrobat), but not > the distiller. I almost have Excel and Word from Office 2000 working, > but there are a few major bugs, like the ability to save a file (!). > Excel in particular works very well otherwise. > > I have fiddled with the installation so much, though, that I'm not sure > I'd be able to reproduce the steps so you could install it. I suppose I > will have to reinstall Wine and try a second time once it works. > > Finally, I am initiating a petition encouraging CodeWeavers to release > CrossOver Office on FreeBSD. It will be announced next week, and I will > post a copy of the announcement here. > > After working with Wine a bit, I find it frustratingly tantalizing, but > very difficult to get just right. The documentation, such as it is, is > awful. So a professionally-supported product would be a great help, I > think. > > Frank > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"