Hi Dan, Thanks for your prompt help. I ended up downloading the CodeWeavers distribution of Wine, which installed easily and put a handy shortcut in gnome for me to configure it. Now I've got it working with the program I wanted it for, but I unfortunately can't seem to get the parallel port working, which kind of makes the program useless (it's an eeprom programmer). In the options, it offers me the choice of writing to the parallel port at 0x278, 0x378 (default, and what I used on windows) or 0x3BC. I have lpt1 mapped in the config to /dev/lp0, which was the default (auto detected), and I can only assume it is correct, I have tried playing with the settings, but the result is always the same. I'm sure this must be something that's configurable, as it's amazing to me that WINE can let me do this, and I doubt it would slip up on something so small as parallel port communications. Again, any help greatly appreciated. Kris. In article <3C7C6DCC.7020307@earthlink.net>, "Dan Sawyer" <dansawyer@earthlink.net> wrote: > help with the first _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users