Wine

Zorro Super Hero z.zorro.z at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 22:16:00 GMT 2005


one more hi to you Frank
i find a nice manual in "winehq.com".
http://winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/index

Thank you for you'r help
now i need some time to read it.

Thank you !

On 8/26/05, Zorro Super Hero <z.zorro.z at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Frank
> i just install "wine" version 20050310 like Alex tall me befor.
> (Alex - a nice man that help me and tall me to install it frome the
> port's that come with Freebsd )
> its installd and now i need to know how to install Office or any other
> windows program.
> do you know any good manual that i can get and read (a step by step manuel)
> 
> its my first time that i see the "wine".
> 
> and Thank you for you'r mail.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/26/05, Frank Jahnke <jahnke at fmjassoc.com> wrote:
> > Wine is a difficult program to use, particularly on FreeBSD.  
> > 
> > Please note first that it is in the FreeBSD ports collection
> > (/usr/ports/emulators/wine), and not of the CD.  That version should be
> > 20050725.  You should patch it according to
> >
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-July/001181.html
> > ; that will get rid of a heap error you will otherwise get.
> > 
> > So far colleagues and I have a few successes.  Photoshop 7 runs very
> > well, as does Acrobat 4.0 (note: not the Reader, but Acrobat), but not
> > the distiller.  I almost have Excel and Word from Office 2000 working,
> > but there are a few major bugs, like the ability to save a file (!).
> > Excel in particular works very well otherwise.  
> > 
> > I have fiddled with the installation so much, though, that I'm not sure
> > I'd be able to reproduce the steps so you could install it.  I suppose I
> > will have to reinstall Wine and try a second time once it works.
> > 
> > Finally, I am initiating a petition encouraging CodeWeavers to release
> > CrossOver Office on FreeBSD.  It will be announced next week, and I will
> > post a copy of the announcement here.  
> > 
> > After working with Wine a bit, I find it frustratingly tantalizing, but
> > very difficult to get just right.  The documentation, such as it is, is
> > awful.  So a professionally-supported product would be a great help, I
> > think.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> >
>


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