[Gllug] Crossover plugin - quicktime on Linux

ab ajb at spkypc.demon.co.uk
Thu Nov 22 21:07:33 UTC 2001


Haven't checked out full blown wine yet.
Would be good to be able to run some windows code,
such as 95 and a few games. Maybe I'll try some old stuff.
Somewhat against the linux spirit to load up word/excel etc,
given the recent thread of office products in this list.

/Anthony/

Xander D Harkness wrote:

> The word, excel and powerpoint viewers work very well.  However there is
> no edit facility as you would expect.  You can print though.
>
> I downloaded the codeweavers wine which enabled me to get IE , word97
> and winamp working easily.  Winzip complains a lot.
>
> I also tried Diablo (Yes forever hopeful)  It advised that it could not
> find any display modes.  I guess direct X does not talk to wine.
>
> Explorer did not work but winfile.exe did.
>
> Cheers
> Xander
>
> On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 20:07, John Hearns wrote:
> > ab wrote:
> >
> > > You must have read the readme first !
> > > I installed as root, and then tried to use in my normal account,
> > > lead to all sorts of trouble - had to clean and download again !
> > > Now its working - runs pretty cool - may even think of buying it.
> > > Have you tried the word docuemtn plugins etc ?
> >
> > Nope - us being a 'meejah' company we're more interested in the
> > Quicktimes!
> >
> >
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