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From: mkv@tky.hut.fi (Markus Valtokari)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: windows app commpatibility
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Date: 16 May 1997 18:14:12 GMT
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Michael Parson (mparson@roloc.bl.org) wrote:

: >Can windows 3.1, 95, and or NT apps be run under unix/linux? If so, how?

: You can run Win 3.1 applications under Linux x86 and Solaris with the 
: Wabi package.  You can get Linux-Wabi from Caldera (www.caldera.com)
  ...
: The other possibility is to use WINE, the Windows Emulator, which
: has some success with running Windows 3.x applications in standard-mode.

  Or you can run Windows 3.1 under Dosemu.  Might work better then Wine in
some cases.

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