-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to John Tserkezis <=-

Hello Paul,

 PE>> What specifically are you after?
 
 JT> Basically replacing dos/windows software I'm running on my workstation
 JT> now. 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
 JT> with xwindows?

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

 I can roll together another PC to use as my dos machine, I don't do heavy duty
work in dos, so it's not a problem.
 I'm using Arcserve for the tape backup, and it lives on the server.  It will
only become a problem if I have to restore, or manage the tape schedules.
 There is that windows emulator, so I'll see if I can get that to work.  I'll
have to get video drivers though, I remember having a limited choice when I
first installed it.

John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

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