Silvan Pagan wrote: > > I've tried lots and lots of stuff, fiddling with the various configuration options again and again. > > Solitaire works most of the time. > Notepad doesn't let me enter text. > Calc displays the numbers in the wrong place, but otherwise works. > > Street Atlas USA 8.0 barfs completely. Not even close, in spite of being in the database. > > Agent does not exhibit proper internal windowing behavior, and crashes when > I attempt to connect to the network, though at least it works well enough for me to read some old stuff I have saved in there. > > PSP 5 doesn't even try. > > Wincake (old win16 version) loads, but can't get past the MIDI setup. It > insists on barfing on an error about not finding the Windows driver for my > soundcard. I have tried it with fake windows with a fake local registry... > No avail... > > American Heritage Dictionary (old version right around '95) can't find its > fonts, nor can it reference the location of any of the files it needs. It > needs its fonts, and its files. I have its fonts installed in Linux, but I don't know if that will make any difference or not. It's a very font-specific program, since it uses custom fonts to display all the funky charactersin the pronunciation guides. > > IOW wine has not impressed me as a viable alternative to continuing to dual boot. > I tend to agree with you. Also, Adobe Acrobat 4.05 works. But, what is the point? But, CodeWeavers has promised us WINE 1.0 sometime. JRT JRT
