On Sunday 13 May 2007 17:05, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:39 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:43 +1000, scsijon wrote:
I have been asked to setup a number of single computers for a transport firm.
They have no problem with it being linux providing everything they have now, they will have afterwards as they are expanding from the current four depots and twelve staff and have planned to have fifteen depots and about twenty five staff by the end of the year.
Unfortunately one of the principal packages they use was written for a Native Windows environment.
Fortunately the programmer is a local and after some "discussion" is willing to create a linux version as he is writing a major upgrade at present and providing I can help him, and with some answers
The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to provide him with a replacement that has a scriptable interface. He would like whichever is used to both have windows and linux versions so he only has to create one version of source code.
Any sugestions?
IIRC Eudora runs under wine.
I just had a look at the Eudora site, it's been discontinued, and picked up by Mozilla as Penelope. The company may not be able to use this on their new systems.
And why would they want run a windows application under wine when they WANT to migrate to Linux??? As stated above, what do you need of Eudora's functionality? The mail client for reading? The addressbook for sending of mails? -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >