Re: WINE?

["Ben FrantzDale" <bfrantzdale Thuban AC HMC Edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Rolando Roman <landie@concentric.net>
To: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>; <rivet@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: WINE?


> my q? is if linux people have windows so much why do they want a win
emulator>
>

I assume you mean ``hate windows''?

The answer is that most applications are for windows. If people could run
those programs on Linux that would mean not having to use windows.

--Ben

> On
> Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Dave Reed wrote: > > 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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