Recently, I helped a buddy of mine install 8.2 on a dual AMD Tyan box in Texas......spent a lot of time from here on the phone with him. He prefers Agent for mail, and I have to admit its a GREAT app. He used the below site as reference to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN (NOT knowing Linux at all!). I'm posting it here as there may be someone else who could use this info. Fred http://www.oliversampson.com/computer/#Agent -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -Paul Rickard
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:54:46 -0400
"Fred A. Miller"
Recently, I helped a buddy of mine install 8.2 on a dual AMD Tyan box in Texas......spent a lot of time from here on the phone with him. He prefers Agent for mail, and I have to admit its a GREAT app. He used the below site as reference to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN (NOT knowing Linux at all!). I'm posting it here as there may be someone else who could use this info.
Fred
Yeah, Agent runs great under wine. I use it for newsgroups, but not mail. It runs almost perfectly under wine, except for viewing images. However, it's ability to save, search, and otherwise manipulate text messages is still the best. Very fast under wine, better than under windows. Pan is catching up fast, but it still dosn't match Agent. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN
I really hadn't played much with Wine until today. Now I've got Boxer (awesome text editor for Windows) and WinZip (just because it was easy and accessible) installed on my 8.1 laptop. I was shocked at how easy it was. CuteFTP is next. Actually, CuteFTP will probably get the most use out of all three assuming it works correctly. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
On Thursday 01 May 2003 1:44 am, John LeMay wrote:
to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN
I really hadn't played much with Wine until today. Now I've got Boxer (awesome text editor for Windows) and WinZip (just because it was easy and accessible) installed on my 8.1 laptop. I was shocked at how easy it was. CuteFTP is next. Actually, CuteFTP will probably get the most use out of all three assuming it works correctly.
We all are in a "no man's land" in a way. SOME apps. that are very desirable haven't been ported to Linux, yet they also won't run under Wine. Some like TasCut are very desireable in the Linux community. Fred -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -Paul Rickard
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2003 1:44 am, John LeMay wrote:
to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN
I really hadn't played much with Wine until today. Now I've got Boxer (awesome text editor for Windows) and WinZip (just because it was easy and accessible) installed on my 8.1 laptop. I was shocked at how easy it was. CuteFTP is next. Actually, CuteFTP will probably get the most use out of all three assuming it works correctly.
We all are in a "no man's land" in a way. SOME apps. that are very desirable haven't been ported to Linux, yet they also won't run under Wine. Some like TasCut are very desireable in the Linux community.
Fred
Yes, this is true. Though I do follow the wine devlopment and I can honestly say that they are getting very close to solving much of these issues. The biggest issue they seem to be having is the manner in which they have to develop. They obviously aren't going to get an ounce of help for you know who, so they are left having to build on what they know an fill in the gaps - - which I understand is laborious and time consuming to say the least. All I can say is that one can surmize that they are getting very close insofar as M$ has recently sent a threatening letter to the FoxPro on Linux developer and advocate with contentions that he's violating the EULA (M$ bought it up sometime ago). On the upside the runtime is essentially free and open so M$ only has 1/2 a leg to stand on AFAICT. I venture that over the next year wine and its contemporary cousins will make fairly large advances, lest the new kernel threading issue presents unforeseen problems. Overall the project is rolling along at a brisk pace. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+stq87WVLiDrqeksRAsNiAJ9pC85bMj2y78ohI27Gmm0gZbSEXACeKzu9 5hn6VGT8yomXBfpTAz0nLu8= =W4iJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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