Wed 2003-01-22 19:04, Neil Heller (1:106/2000) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> You might also like to try your Windows tax program under WINE...

 > Not trying to seem too stupid.... what is WINE (other than the nectar 
 > of the gods).

"Wine is an implementation of the Windows Win32 and Win16 APIs on top
of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine
provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources
to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows
3.x/95/98/ME/NT/W2K/XP binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine works on
most popular Intel Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative
implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can
optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine comes with
complete sources, documentation and examples and is freely redistributable.
(The licensing terms are the GNU Lesser General Public License.)"

- http://www.winehq.com/about/

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