Re: corel linux demo

1999-10-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Actually I hadn't thought of the fact that you could link a windows program agains winelib to create a native linux executable, but it makes perfect sense. Corel might still need a few ifdef's to work around known problems in wine's implementation of the win32 api, but it would be quite do-able.

Re: corel linux demo

1999-10-03 Thread Anderson MacKay
Ech, I'm a bit behind on my -devel reading. I hope this question hasn't been answered down in another thread. :) On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 06:49:15AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I understood wine as being a library that intercepted > win32 calls and redirected those calls into the > correct X or

Re: corel linux demo

1999-10-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth > Scharf wrote: > > I hope some shovelware cd makers will burn their > beta > > onto cdr and sell it for those of us without T1 > lines. > > I wonder if Corel will allow this... and I wonder > why

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I hope some shovelware cd makers will burn their beta > onto cdr and sell it for those of us without T1 lines. I wonder if Corel will allow this... and I wonder why I should use a system which is not open source... Greetings Bernd

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Joe Drew
> > Wordperfect is the only app they have ported as a > > Native linux binary, and after version 8, they > > probably won't be doing a linux native binary version. > > So WP version 9 will be a win32 binary under Wine. > > Are you sure? Wine is not only a binary-compatibility system; it also a

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth > Scharf was heard to say: > > They said that the beta of their linux distro will > be > > available for public download by the end of > October. > > Hm. Do you have any information about the >

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf was heard to say: > They said that the beta of their linux distro will be > available for public download by the end of October. Hm. Do you have any information about the following issues: -> How big is it? The only spare partition I