On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:31:23AM +0000, Mark Evans wrote:
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Some have functionally identical opensource replacements e.g. graph drawing and electronics stuff. But some such as Kudos don't have obvious alternatives. Whilst you can run most things with Win4Lin that costs money. And one notable thing which causes problems is the Thomas Telford GNVQ course, since it requires real player plugins and codecs (Not sure if these will work with Linux and the version of realplayer bundled with the couse dosn't work with Win4Lin because it is direct-X based.
I downloaded Realplayer for linux from www.realplay.com(?) the other day and it works nicely under the linux `emulator' in FreeBSD & I suppose it must therefore work well under linux. Whether you can plug it into Mozilla or whatever I've no idea & anyway it probably wouldn't help you much in the situation you describe.
The Thomas Telford stuff comes with two additional files called Plugins.exe and Codecs.exe. Both of which are self extracting zip files which contain a large number of Windows DLL files. Which end up under c:\Program Files\Common Files\real Without these some of the video/audio won't work. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763