Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:27:19PM -0400, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> I have an old boxed "Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia". The box  
> boasts, "System Requirements for UNIX: Solaris, SunOS, SGI, DEC, Alpha,  
> AIX, Linux, BSD, SCO, X Windows, 8 MB RAM, 6MB Hard Disk space, CD ROM"

Does it claim one box supports all of those?  Or did they have different
boxes for different systems?

> I thought I'd try installing it. However, there are no instructions fro  
> installing on LInux. THe instructions are all for installing on the  
> other supported OS: OS/2WARP.
>
> I installed wine with 'sudo apt-get install wine' and that went okay. I  
> went into the CD and right-clicked install.exe > Open With Other  
> Application ... > Wine Windows Program Loader. A terminal opened briefly  
> then ... nothing. I also tried the same thing with the only other two  
> .exe files (dux.exe and chk4dll.exe) with the same result).

The unix version would not be using a .exe, so forget about that file.

What else is there?

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Len Sorensen
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