Another reason to like FreeBSD

[clayton rollins]

>On Mon, 5 May 2003 23:51:49 Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> wrote:
>
>Hello Michael,
>
>Monday, May 5, 2003, 11:14:25 PM, "Michael W. Holdeman" 
><PTFD9100 at beanstalk.net> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Clayton,
> > Thanks, I was unable to get Wine ot run my apps, I realize they are
> > making progress and I should retry soon.
> > Win4lin is at www.netraverse.com
>
>You could look into vmware, that allows you to run Windows inside of
>FreeBSD.
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>  Gabriel

Sorry to hear the bad news Michael; luckily, according to Gabriel's post, 
hope is not lost entirely. (you can get the cvs of wine too, look here 
http://www.winehq.com/?page=cvs )

Failing all that, may I ask why you need the legacy app.s? Do you just have 
a ton of data in a certain format? Or just no suitable alternative available 
from ports?

I only ask because, one of the first things I set out to do on my box was 
install wine and get my windows app.s working; I never really got around to 
it, because I consistently found similar or better software available 
through ports. In fact, I installed wine earlier today and really couldn't 
think of any app.s I wanted to run. (the flash thing kind of sucks..., 
otherwise my freebsd boxes are way more capable than any win. machine I 
had.)

If the problem is data in some legacy format, you might check the conversion 
utilities in ports.

Well, I hope you get it worked out. Or, that some crucial enhancement is 
coming to one of these projects sometime soon.

Peace,
Clayton

PS. On a side note, I wonder if win4lin can be run via the compatibility 
libraries... Sounds contrived, but it may work...


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