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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:20:13PM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
Hmm .
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 11:59, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Yes, you need to start "wine foo.exe"
Er. Since I've never used it before, and haven't installed any programs yet, I'm not sure what to replace the "foo" with. I tried "write.exe", "notepad.exe" and "help.exe" as guesses which in retrospect was rather naive. Basically, I would like to see what I thought wine would look like: a little window with a faux-M$ Windows desktop within it. Is this simply wrong?
Yes. I used wine with Mathcad a while ago. One does: wine mathcad.exe in Konsole f.x, and when you've got it set up right, lots of output in Konsole ensues. Lots of output! You may get a lot of errors too, but many of those IINM are basically debugging info. Mathcad appears, as an app in KDE, with KDE borders/decoration. You don't get a W$ desktop. What happens is that wine acts as an interpreter between the app and your system. So when the app wants something, it talks to wine, believing that it's talking to W$. Wine then negotiates a 'deal' with linux on behalf of the app. Usually you want a GUI running, which is why I'm mentioning Konsole. Few (if any) W$ apps will run without, but wine takes care of talking to X as well :) You might need to specify the full path to your app, YMMV.
I have a copy of win4lin which I have to install. Perhaps that's the way to go. But I thought wine would at least give me something pretty to look at in the meantime!
Did for me. Mathcad in KDE *is* kind of pretty :) HTH Jon Clausen