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Article #59710Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office
From: Jay Mottern
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <30BC7423.17A1BA92@wfu.edu>, cottrell@wfu.edu says... >I may not have the absolutely latest version of WINE, but in my >experience it is a long way from being able to run MS Office (or >any components thereof). Solitaire is OK, and you may be lucky with >some of the standard applets such as Calendar -- though even then the >results are not entirely predictable. The attraction of Wine is that >it is self-contained and very easy to use (no messing with kernel or >boot routines required), but it still seems to be at the experimental >stage. Same here. I got the 11-24-95 release of WINE to try to run my Windoze voice-mail software (SuperVoice 2.0) but had no sucess. I also tried Claris Works for Windoze and no go. Solitaire worked, though. It looks as though WINE is far from being a universal MS Windows emulator that'll run most 3rd-party apps. Still, it's pretty slick that it works as much as it does. Soon there might be no need to have a DOS or Windows OS installed at all- Linux might be able to do everything! -Jay
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