From: "Geo" 

So does it also do windows update so you can get the monthly patches? (or
like this month the bi-monthly patches)

Geo.

"Adam"  wrote in message
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34625
>
> "That's how 'IEs4Linux' was born, a script that 'automagically'
> downloads and installs not one but the last three release versions of
> Internet Explorer -6.0, 5.5 SP2, and 5.0- on any 32-bit linux desktop
> with the wine core libraries in place. The installer program by Lopes
> -released under a GPL licence- relies on 'wine' and a third party
> utility dubbed 'cabextract' to decompress the windows archives
> downloaded from Microsoft's site. The IEs4Linux program is at version
> 2.0 after a long beta testing period that spanned from April to August."
>
>
> "The ies4linux is a great example of user-friendly software: it checks
> for the presence of 'wine' on the system -down to the build level-,
> wget, unzip and it the tools it requires. After answering four questions
> -namely which versions do you want to install, and in which language, it
> starts to work fetching the required components and files -some of them
> from Microsoft- with the ubiquitous 'wget' utility built into almost
> every linux, and doing everything needed until its process is finished
> and IE icons pop up on the linux desktop -for the record: I tested it
> with my favourite one, Gnome, so your mileage might vary or not if
> you're running KDE."
>
>
> Adam

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