wine and ie?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 29 12:58:44 UTC 2006


Guillermo Garron wrote:

> On 8/28/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>
>> runnung dapper on my laptop, a dell d820 (coreduo based).  i've been
>> given a cd's with xrays from a recent surgery, but the d's run a
>> mostly-javascript program from GE (a favourite company of mine anyway!)
>> that refuses to run in any environment other than windows/internet
>> explorer.  so i can't see my x-rays!  i have the dapper wine packages
>> installed and they seem to run fine -- installed firefox in the wine
>> nvironment with no trouble, for instance.  but ie refuses to co-operate.
>> has anyone had any success, and could they give me some clues?  thanks,

> Try VMware instead,

Give it a break.  VMWare is not the be-all and end-all.  It's not worth the
trouble just to read some xrays.

Search the archives of this list.  I published my howto here, this spring. 
It is NOT a pretty job.  Basicaly, I used ies4linux, but I spent three
months getting to something that seems to work well.
-- 
derek





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