[PLUG] WINE Question
David Mandel
dmandel at pdxLinux.org
Fri Sep 20 18:44:04 UTC 2002
On 19 Sep 2002, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
>
> Rich> Wine runs on a linux fs, but I believe that the application
> Rich> and data need to be on a vfat (type 6) fs.
>
> I don't think so. I just recently ran my first ever Wine application,
> a MS Fortran application written at BPA.
>
No, wine runs just fine with everything on a Linux file system like
ext2, ext3, or reiserfs. I haven't used wine very much, but the few
applications I have used with wine have either not ran at all or
else ran quite well.
MS Fortran!! This was Micro Soft's somewhat successful attempt to
kill a great language. MS Fortran is the buggiest compiler I've
ever used. I guess Micro Soft has never had much use for mathematics
or science.
Sincerely,
David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux/Unix Group
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