James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote: > Silvan Pagan wrote: [...] >> 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. Well, Wine *still* is declared alpha software. Which means that we *still* do *heavy* architectural changes sometimes (which is especially happening right now !) Nothing to be astonished about... ;) -- Andreas Mohr, Renningen, Germany In case you need to contact me after expiry of temporary email address: my eternal (hopefully) email address is frqr2001 at the domain sneakemail.com
