Re: Wine

[nospam [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk]

On  5 Feb, Ross wrote:
> has anyone tried the latest release of wine?
> 
> i've been playing around with it for the past couple of days. I've
> managed to get cuteFTP 2.0, adobe acrobat reader 4.0, AOLpress &
> firstclass client 5.5 to run with 99% success.
> 
> i know it's not sticking with the roots of linux but it saves having to
> install a lot of very large packages (ie AA reader) twice, this is
> especially important for the likes of me who are a bit tight for disk
> space (having a dual boot pc has major disadvantages!)
> 
> i'm interested to hear from anyone who has had success in running other
> major packages (not games!) or anyone frustated by it's limitations?

I've been playing with wine for quite a while but only to run two
programs Babel and netscape.

Instead of answering your question can I ask another when using cuteFTP
how did you persuade it to do DNS look ups. This could be something
obvious that I've missed but I can't see how to do it.

As for why I need to run windows netscape I'm just mad 

SMB.

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