PE>> What specifically are you after?

JT> Basically replacing dos/windows software I'm running on my workstation now.
JT> I'll probably still run a dos machine on my old 486 that I have lying 
JT> around, and convert my pentium to linux/nt.  I have some windows sofware 
JT> that ONLY comes as windozs. (cd writer, organiser software, phone book, 
JT> graphics editing, tape backup software, adobe acrobat reader).
JT> I might be able to get away without that graphics editor, and maybe 
JT> acrobat, but everything else pisses me right off because the software is 
JT> crap and is ONLY available as windowz.  Can't even get to write my own 
JT> because they saw fit to not release info/protocols, which leaves me no 
JT> choice but to use windoz. I think there is a windoz emulator that comes with 
JT> xwindows?

Yes, there is something called "wine", but I don't know how good
it is. You can do MSDOS emulation under Linux as well, which I tried
briefly. You can probably get tape backup software under Linux for your
tape too. BFN.  Paul.
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