Accessing Windows XP programs in Ubuntu (was Re: The pest again)

[Jeffrey Needle]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:52 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/21/2008 09:28 AM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:52 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 07/20/2008 07:21 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 18:22 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> 
> >> >> I'm curious; the http://gospelink.com/ appears to be a web application
> >> >> so it should work with one of the top three/four browsers. 
> >> > 
> >> > I'm sick of giving them money.  I've spent lots of money over the years
> >> > and don't want to give them another 50 bucks a year.  Sheesh.
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Well nothing in your reply provided any useful information regarding
> >> what you need to do with your application. So I reckon that you are on
> >> your own with that. Good luck.
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > Sorry.  I write a lot of book reviews and research papers, and I often
> > have to cite early Mormon documents, all located on this CD.
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, I'll bite: what specifically is the format of the documents on the
> CD? BTW: if it is Gospelink 2001 that you are refering to & want to run
> it with Wine, have a look at this:
> 
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11964
> 
> So, I'd recommend reading up on VirtualBox, install VB, install Win2K or
> WinXP in VB and run your program using that.
> 
> 
> 

Gosh, it's rated as "garbage" on that website.  You know, I've done some
more research, and there seems to be some agreement on this.  It seems
that the files are indeed in Infobase format.  Does this make the files
more accessible?

As a matter of further research, I've found much of what's of use on the
CD is also available from various sources on-line.  It may be that, in
the end, I'll have to scrap GospeLink altogether and go with on-line
sources.


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