wine does work. It requires a lot of configuration. codeweavers sell a dist of wine that easily runs ms office and ie.
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:52, Scarletdown wrote: > Okay, how do I get Win-9x and DOS programs to run using WINE? When I > installed Linux, WINE was allegedly set up; and from what I could > determine, all I would have to do to run a program under it is click on > its executable file. > > However, I have not been able to get anything to work with WINE this > way. Every time I click on an .EXE file, WINE tries to run (there's a > spinning hourglass icon in a minimized window for about 20 seconds), and > then it quits with no warnings or other messages. > > The man pages are pretty useless, and I also had a look at the > installation guide here: > > http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/applications/system/wine/wine-user/installing.html > > and found it to be no help either. -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
