Re: WINE?



my q? is if linux people have windows so much why do they want a win emulator>

On
Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Dave Reed wrote: > > From: Desmond Rivet
<rivet@ecf.utoronto.ca> > > 
> > 
> > Sorry for the silly question, but exactly 
> > does "WINE" mean/standfor?
> > 
> > In a technical context :-)
> 
> It's a Windows emulator for Unix systems - it implements the Windows
> API so that you can run Windows programs on Unix systems.  The problem
> is the people working on it don't have access to all the
> "undocumented" functions from Microsoft so it's not perfect.
> 
> See http://www.winehq.com/ for more details.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-list mailing list
> gnome-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
-- 
Rolando Roman





[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]