Re: tlug: Avoiding WINE

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Darren Cook wrote:

> >all.  I'm not at all that experienced with WINE yet, but so far, it seems like
> >it's a million miles from prime time WRT win32 stuff.  A lot of win16 stuff is
> >supposed to work, though, so you might be able to use a 16-bit version of
> >ws-ftp or CuteFTP, if there is such a thing.
> 
> This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while. Is there
> a way to compile MFC-based Win32 apps for Linux & X-Windows? It seems this
> must be technically easier than trying to run window binaries on Linux, and
> if it was easy to use you could just beg the authors of windows software to
> do a port. You might even get some big commercial software ported, which
> could dramatically increase Linux's popularity.

if it was easy to DO, they probably would do it without begging :)
Unfortunately, it's not.  Having used MFCs myself, they're pretty
drastically different from anything you find in Linux... there's no easy
formula for porting it, I should say.

> 
> However I suppose Linux will never make any significant penetration into
> offices until it runs MS Office (or at least an almost identical clone).
> It's got nothing to do with software quality, but with people, and their
> reluctance to change once they've learnt something.

Applixware is fairly similar.  I think you can use Office keybindings in
some cases, too, but don't quote me on that :)

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