From: Uwe Bonnes Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS: Win95 emu? Why the hell not!!! Date: 29 Jan 1997 23:47:04 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5conho$ttl@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: Reply-To: bon AT elektron DOT ikp DOT physik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de NNTP-Posting-Host: gauss.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote: : On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Orlando Andico wrote: : > On 26 Jan 1997, frenchc wrote: : > : > > is probably the reason why I never did any more windows programing heheh) : > > but how hard can it be to emulate the windows API? : > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : > : > famous last words, don't you think? ;) : > i think the real problem is not just emulating the windows API, but all : > those &*(&^$^ DLL's as well. micro$oft keeps adding and adding 'em and you : > can't claim true windoze compatibility if you don't emulate them DLL's as : > well.. : > : > for reference, see the WINE project.. after several years, even with lots : > of volunteers, it's still incomplete. 8O : Hey, it's getting there! WINE runs solitaire on my system. Thats : about it, but after 4 years of work from hundreds of people over the : net, what do you expect? :o) Seriously, I hardly doubt that any : free Windows clone will become available within the next 5 years that : has even the functionality of 3.1 does today. This is unfortunate, : but sadly I believe it to be true. WINE will probably be the closest : thing though. What version do you run. Wine can run much more. E.g. the winhelp viewer is of much help for me. Others reported word to work ... -- Uwe Bonnes bon AT elektron DOT ikp DOT physik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------