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James C wrote:
> On 15/07/08 23:24, James C wrote:
>> On 15/07/08 16:31, Will Kemp wrote:
>>> If anyone's considering it, it looks like e-tax will work perfectly 
>>> under Wine v1.
>>>
>>> I just lodged my 2008 tax return using e-tax - using one of the XP 
>>> virtual machines i've got running under VirtualBox on my Fedora 9 system.
>>>
>>> It did occur to me to try and use wine, but i didn't want to risk it 
>>> stuffing up halfway through. I'd never used e-tax before and didn't 
>>> really know what to expect.
>>>
>>> However, i wish i had used wine now, as e-tax appears to work ok with 
>>> it. After i lodged my return, i thought i'd have a go at installing 
>>> e-tax in wine - and that went smoothly. I can open my saved e-tax file 
>>> and do everything with it that i'd expect to be able to do under windows.
>>>
>>> The only thing i haven't been able to try was actually lodging it, but 
>>> given the faultless operation of all the other functions, i'd guess 
>>> that will work.
>> I tried etax 2008 on Wine 0.9.46 (default Wine installed on Ubuntu 
>> 7.10).  It installed, but the text was almost unreadably blocky and 
>> cropped, and it stopped functioning not long after I entered a few basic 
>> personal details.
>>
>> But after reading this, I might see if I can install Wine 1.x and try 
>> again.
> 
> I just tried etax 2008 with Wine 1.0 (latest Wine available for Ubuntu 
> 7.10) and it wasn't any better than with Wine 0.9.46, for the same reasons.

Strange! It works fine in Wine 1.0 under Fedora 9.

Gnome or KDE? I use Gnome.



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