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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co.uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help for wine Date: 3 May 1996 10:53:01 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4mcoid$2ob@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <67Tj2geLSlB@bwr.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Wolfram Rautenberg (wr@bwr.ruhr.de) wrote: : I installed wine-95.11.05 on my FreeBSD-2.1.0R Platform, and I hope, there : is somebody, who can give me an answer to the following questions: For a start, please try installing a more recent Wine version, as things have changed a *lot* since November. Try ftp://tsx11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/Wine-960421.tar.gz (avoid the 960428 release - it won't compile on FBSD-2.1 without patching). : 1. What is wrong ? : - wine notepad : I cannot load the filechooser. The hourglass appears, : but nothing else. : - wine progman : The window appears, but nothing else. Notepad and progman should work fairly well with an up-to-date release I think. : - wine excel : error i386_set_ldt: Invalid argument : The kernel is compiled with the option USER_LDT. : : 2. Is it possible ? : - running word 6.0 and excel 5.0 Excel/WORD are beginning to run, but won't be suitable for serious use for a long while yet. : 3. Is this the right way: : I in-tar-ed the whole tree of a windows 3.11 installation in the : wine-dos-root This should work, though there will be a lot of stuff in there that isn't usefull to wine. There are lots of other ways of doing it as well. BTW, a better place to ask these questions is the newsgroup: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Paradise Green Technical Services: S'ware/Hw design and Theatre Tech. Services