Re: WINE?

From: Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>
To: rivet ecf utoronto ca
Cc: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: WINE?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:23:53 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Desmond Rivet <rivet@ecf.utoronto.ca>
> 
> 
> Sorry for the silly question, but exactly 
> does "WINE" mean/standfor?
> 
> In a technical context :-)

It's a Windows emulator for Unix systems - it implements the Windows
API so that you can run Windows programs on Unix systems.  The problem
is the people working on it don't have access to all the
"undocumented" functions from Microsoft so it's not perfect.

See http://www.winehq.com/ for more details.

Dave

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