Because as you have heard Windows ME isn't dos - based anymore. Yes some of the dos functions exist but basically Windows ME acts on its own. I have windows ME and its networking and other features are much much better. Even with the extensive tweaking of the win 98 SE machine. I can get no where's near the speed of downloading that WIN ME is getting. > ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] Test of Wine with Win98 and WinMe > ** Original Sender: "pablito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ** Original Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:57:23 -0600 > ** Original Message follows... > > Sorry about cross-posting, but note: anyone who was thinking of upgrading > to Windows Me. > ---- > > I tested Wine build 20000909.1mdk.i586.rpm on a computer with win98 > installed, > and my computer with Windows Me installed. > > Results: Wine worked a lot better with Windows 98. I got some programs > running and almost got MSWord running without fooling with the wine.conf > file. All of the simple Windows programs worked fine. > > Tested with Windows Me, Wine doesn't run anything. Everything crashes, even > the program sol.exe that the Wine people tell you to use as a test fiel, > even with extensive tweaking of the windows.conf file. > > I also tested the latest build wine-cvs-stripped 112500-1.i386.rpm from > Dataparty on both computers. result: Got lots of programs running on the > Windows 98 machine including microsoft excel! On the Windows Me machine, I > was able to run solitare without crashing (sol.exe) but nothing else would > run. > > > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > ]XAN[animalTK
