On Sunday 11 August 2002 11:49 pm, Matt Thoene wrote: > Hi Brook, > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, at 08:24:44 [GMT -0700] (8:24 AM pst) you wrote: > > Will it ever happen? I've been using linux for many years and the only > > windows box I have collects more and more dust. I have paid for the bat > > but it bairly gets any use anymore. > > Have you ever messed with vmware? (www.vmware.com) You *do* have to pay > for it which goes against the whole open source philosophy, but it does > a hell of a job running windows/win apps on your linux desktop. Plus > it's just cool. :] Before we go any further I've been using linux for at least 4 or 5 years. I know about vmware, wine, and win4lin. I've had the bat working under wine before but it's kind of slow and the interface doesn't update properly. Besides wine freaks me out. I feel like my email will go poof in some freak accident. Vmware is another story. I will probably never use it. It's not in my opinion worth what you pay for it. Win4lin looks ok but I have never got around to trying it.
Ok so these solution have strong and weak points each. Now the reason I asked is that out of all the software I have actually purchased for my own use and there is not much really I would like to see the bat run properly on linux. I have only purchased thebat, ontrack system suite, corel office and windows itself. That must say something about the bat. Anyway it would be nice to have it running on linux. Thanks for the replies they do not exactly answer the question I asked. I want to know about a native linux binary called the bat running under linux and weather or not they have even considered such a thing. Thank you all for your replies. I hope I have explained a little better now. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html