From: BSimon AT securenet DOT com DOT au (Brendan Simon) Subject: RE: WIN32on UNIX? 4 Jun 1998 11:13:56 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'Stephen Greenberg'" , "'Patrick Steranka'" Cc: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" You could try WINE (Windows Emulator). It runs on Linux but I'm not sure about other Unix boxes. >---------- >From: Patrick Steranka[SMTP:steranka AT steranka DOT com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 12:50 PM >To: Stephen Greenberg >Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Re: WIN32on UNIX? > >On a couple of projects I have worked on we needed to access >Window's formated "HELP" *.hlp files on a UNIX system. >A company called Bristol Technologies has a product that we used. >It was fine for what we wanted. Nothing special, but the windows help >"app" running under UNIX. > >The also have a product that makes it easy to port apps from Windows >to UNIX. > >They may have something that lets you run windows apps on UNIX, but >I don't know. The URL is < Bristol Technology Inc. Home Page (hyperhelp) >. >I just tried it and it timed out. I'm on their mailing list, so think they >are still around. > >HTH, >Patrick Steranka >steranka AT steranka DOT com > >Stephen Greenberg wrote: > >> As an integrator of Thin Client and UNIX-NT solutions we are looking for >> >> an alternative solution to presenting WIN32 applications to the UNIX >> desktop. Currently, we are using variations of Citrix Winframe and >> Microsoft Terminal Server (beta) technologies for this purpose, however, >> >> there are a growing number of issues with these solutions for UNIX >> environments. If you are not familiar with this products, they are >> multi-user versions of WIN NT that allow NT user sessions to display on >> UNIX desktops. >> >> We are currently evaluating a product called "LiftOff" from New Moon >> which distributes WIN32 execution by intercepting API calls on the host >> server and re-directing them over the network to be executed on client >> systems. This is an intriguing approach to distributed processing, >> however, it requires that the client system be able to execute the full >> functionality of WIN32. Currently, only WIN9x and WINNT can successfully >> >> act as clients to this WIN NT application server approach. >> >> (This is a link to info on the product) >> >> http://www.newmoon.com/company/press_room/press_releases/pr_05-05-98.html >> >> My question is if there is a way to allow a UNIX desktop to act as a >> full WIN32 client, i.e. receive the API calls from the Windows >> application server and execute them locally. Any information, thoughts >> or speculations are appreciated! >> >> Thank You in advance... >> >> Steve Greenberg >> Thin Client Computing >> 15111 N. Hayden Rd #160-107 >> Scottsdale, AZ 85260 >> (602) 432-UNIX >> (602) 483-7570 fax >> steveg AT thinclient DOT net >> >> - >> For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >> "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".