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istalling windows based programs on linux
Name: MICHAEL Date: January 6, 2001 at 12:53:30 Pacific
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how do I install exe programs on linux? rpm wont recognize battlecom i know i have to make a program to install exe files, but not sure how to go about it
Name: brad3378 Date: January 6, 2001 at 19:48:46 Pacific
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have you researched "wine"?
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Response Number 2
Name: blumini Date: January 6, 2001 at 22:13:45 Pacific
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Also, there is vmware (virtual machine) The SuSE distro has a 30 day trial version www.suse.de www.vmware.com
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Response Number 3
Name: marsd Date: January 7, 2001 at 15:19:49 Pacific
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WINE is a software package that masquerades and redirects api calls made by win executables. It uses it's own set of counter- feit libraries or the .dlls of the mounted windows partition. it is not totally reliable with 32 bit applications and has considerable problems with directx stuff. VMware is an emulator that allows windows to reside in it's own virtal environment on top of linux, so that you are running two os's at the same time. it's really up to you which way you want to go; wine is free however..
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Linux-Mandrake 7.2 buggy?
