I couldn't have said better.





> n2cheval wrote:
> >
> > What's the wine emulator?
> >

> > >
> > >Hi !
> > >
> > >As requested here is a screenshot of POVWIN running under Linux with the
> > >
> > >Wine emulator.
> > >The picture has been downsized and saved with a high JPEG compression.
> > >
> > >

> > >
>
> Wine is a reimplimentation of the WIN32 API's. I cite from freshmeat:
>
> "Wine 990226
>    jacky liu - February 27th 1999, 16:27 EST
>
> Wine Is Not an Emulator, it is an alternative implementation of the
> Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit
> (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program
> loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under
> Intel Unixes. 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."
>
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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