On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:37 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I've never tried it with a real windows - I didn' t want to > contaminate my Linux boxes. For games winex-cvs seems to work well. > You do have to set up the config file though. It isn't hard - just > edit it and read the comments. > > > On Friday 11 July 2003 00:59, brett holcomb wrote: > > > Read man wine.conf for details. Also check the wine site > > > for other docs. You can get winesetuptk (merge it) and it > > > will take you through a setup. It runs on Linux. You > > > don't have to have a windows partition. > > > > My personal experience tells me that creating a 'fake' win > > installation is far more better then using an existing one. > > > > I had much more errors/lockups while using my existing windooze > > installation than with fake one. > > > > Dmitry.
A couple of years ago, I had some luck using wine to run Windows apps installed on a win98 box on my LAN. I eventually got a few useful programs running by copying needed dll's from there. To be honest, I haven't played much with wine since installing Gentoo. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
