Some good news for a change -- WINE

[Peter]

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Paul King wrote:

> I imagine many of these failures to be permanent. For example, I have
> many applications with some .dll's and .ini's on C: while the
> installation directory may be on e: or f:. To add further to the
> complexity, many installations have decided to have yet another part of
> their binaries coexist in a directory called "shared program files" or
> something like that. Without access to the registry (another headache in
> itself), WINE won't be able to get most applications off the ground.

Wine has access to the registry. Most m$ programs do not run because 
they use undocumented calls and library features. These are not passed 
on to developers outside m$ so programs compiled by others with m$ tools 
mostly work. Wine is one of the most damning pieces of software for m$ 
in the context of nondisclosure and insufficient documentation of system 
and library call interfaces ;-)

Peter
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