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[Fwd: Win4Lin [Re: FrameMaker - UNIX/Linux]]

Hello Pat,

YES. Win4Lin presents an emulated Windows/98 interface to
application software. PC programs which run under Windows/98
should generally run OK under PC Linux/Win4Lin. 

I haven't tried this myself, but am planning to do so in the
near future, primarily because Linux is looking a whole lot
less vulnerable to security fiascoes than Windows.

For Win4Lin information, click on

http://www.netraverse.com/


I've embedded a detailed note from my son Steve at the
end of this email message.

This information also went to the  `Framers'   list, but
bounced.

I hope this note is helpful.


Chuck Hastings cwh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

206/354-8701


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Pat Christenson wrote:

Hi Chuck -

Was he running the Windows version of FM?

Pat Christenson

On Apr 21, 2004, at 8:50 AM, Chuck Hastings wrote:

Hello Framers,

To run FrameMaker on a Linux platform, try installing Win4Lin,
which runs under
Linux but presents a Windows/98 interface to application
software. One of my kids
who is a Linux expert (albeit not a regular FrameMaker user) tried this approach,
and as far as he could tell FrameMaker 5.5.6 operated just fine
under Win4Lin.
His Linux system is Debian Linux.

Win4Lin is, of course, PC software and not Apple software.

Chuck Hastings cwh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Thomas Michanek wrote:

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From: "Pat Christenson" <pchristenson@xxxxxxxxx>

    Has anyone tried loading the Solaris version under Linux? One of our
    developers seems to think that's a possibility. It's been many years
    since I touched Solaris and I've never worked with Linux at all,
    so I'm
    hoping someone here has explored this path.

    No, this is not possible. FrameMaker is a binary executable,
    compiled for a certain processor architecture and platform.
    The Solaris version of FM is made for a SPARC processor running
    X Windows on Solaris, and there's no way to get that to execute
    on an Intel PC with Linux. I guess you *can* install Linux on a
    Sun box (equipped with a SPARC processor), but I doubt the FM
    version would install and run like it should, since it's made
    for X Windows and Solaris. You would need to tweak the Linux
    installation to look like Solaris to the FM installer...
    (I haven't tried this; maybe it's possible)

    If you have Solaris and Linux machines running on the same
    Unix network, you can of course run FM on Solaris and display
    it on the Linux box (the DISPLAY feature in X Windows).

    _____________________________________________
    Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
    Technical Communicator, Uppsala, Sweden
    mailto:Thomas.Michanek@xxxxxxxxx
    http://go.to/framers/ (updated on April 7)
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Win4Lin presents an emulated Windows/98 interface to application software. PC programs which run under Windows/98 should
generally run OK under PC Linux/Win4Lin. 



Yes.  Win4Lin allows you to run any Windows 9x version (95, 98, 98 SE,
or ME) under Linux.  Win4Lin maps low-level operations (such as saving a
file) onto the Linux equivalents, and Windows doesn't know it's running
on Linux.

One good thing is that your files live in your Linux environment, not in
some opaque virtual file system.  So if you wanted to, for example, grab
a file and attach it to an email, it should just work, with no need to
export the file from a virtual file system.

Win4Lin does not yet support any NT-based version of Windows, such as
Windows 2000 or Windows XP.  Perhaps it never will.  For me, Windows 98
support is enough.

Win4Lin does not work with really low-level Windows programs: for
example, games that need to talk to a 3D graphics card.  And Win4Lin
doesn't support USB yet.

Win4Lin does fully support networking.  It provides a virtual network
adaptor that Windows can use, and passes through all network traffic to
the real network card in Linux.

FrameMaker is a straightforward Windows application that doesn't do any
tricky low-level stuff, so it should just work.  When I tested it, it
seemed to work just fine, but of course I didn't give it a thorough
testing.

So, to use Win4Lin, you need a computer running Linux, a copy of
Win4Lin, and a copy of Windows.

Another alternative to Win4Lin is VMWare. VMWare, until recently, cost
$300 but they just dropped the price to $200. VMWare provides a full
virtual computer upon which Windows can run, and thus VMWare can run any
version of Windows (including NT, 2000, and XP). VMWare doesn't run as
fast as Win4Lin, but it's certain to be able to run just about all
Windows software.
-- Steve R. Hastings "Vita est" steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.blarg.net/~steveha




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