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Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office

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From: Jay Mottern
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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From: shamus@eskimo.com (Jay Mottern)
Subject: Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office
Date: 1995/12/01
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