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From: rcjvdb@urc.tue.nl (Jan van den Bosch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 12 Feb 97 13:08:31 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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pseelig@localhost.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Paul Seelig) writes:

>In article <32FB1A50.83E@pop.net>,
>	"mail12706@pop.net" <mail12706@pop.net> writes:
>> well, word 2.0b under WINE should do the trick, anybody tried it yet?
>>
>Yes, it runs under the last Wine releases. Current is Wine-020297. But
>it is not usable at all. Word-5.5 for DOS runs fine though with
>DOSemu.  BTW the latest DOSemu permits Windows-3.11 to run in an
>'xdos' window under X but it is still of no real use either. It just
>crashes after five minutes.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
so it's emulating Windows-3.11 nearly perfect!
   (I couldn't resist this one..)
Jan v.d. Bosch

>                                    Regards, P. *8^)