Re: Misc FAQ improvements

[Tom]

Mike Hearn wrote:
>       Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS
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>      Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX. 
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>      Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX operating systems such as Linux. 

Why not just  : Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on 
UNIX operating systems.
Wine runs on BSD, Solaris, OSX as well.
> @@ -440,7 +448,12 @@
>           taken place. That said, the documentation is often bad, nonexistent,
>           and even misleading where it exists, so a fair amount of reverse
>           engineering has been necessary, particularly in the shell (Explorer)
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>      interface.
> -
>      interface. The biggest problem facing Wine though is simply lack of
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>  manpower. At one point, over 5000 people were working on Windows 2000.
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>  While Wine doesn't need to replicate all of Windows (we only cover the
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>  parts needed to make Windows programs work), that's still nearly 10 times
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>  more people working simply on one release than have <emphasis>ever</emphasis>
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>  worked on Wine, in the history of the project.

should you note at one given time ?
> @@ -1142,7 +1161,7 @@
>       <answer>
>         <para>
>           Make sure you have all the VB runtime libraries installed. You may
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>      need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll
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>      need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll. You can get some from dll-files.com.

some or them or just "it" if you only need the one dll ?

Tom

Misc FAQ improvements

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 05:33, Tom wrote:
> Why not just  : Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on 
> UNIX operating systems.
> Wine runs on BSD, Solaris, OSX as well.

A lot of newbies especially aren't aware that Linux == UNIX, the
distinction is subtle, especially if you installed it 5 hours ago.

I saw a few people getting confused by that, so I thought I'd clarify
it.

The vast majority of people who use Wine and don't know what UNIX is,
are Linux users (because they are new). So, it made sense to choose that
as an example.
> should you note at one given time ?

Hmm? I don't understand, sorry :(
> > @@ -1142,7 +1161,7 @@
> >       <answer>
> >         <para>
> >           Make sure you have all the VB runtime libraries installed. You may
> > -
> >      need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll
> > -
> >      need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll. You can get some from dll-files.com.
>
> some or them or just "it" if you only need the one dll ?

Bad placement, I guess it should have been "get some DLLs from"

Misc FAQ improvements

[Tom]

> > should you note at one given time ?
>
> Hmm? I don't understand, sorry :(

:)

My bad ......I read over it fast and was thinking you ment # or workers at
any
one given time when you ment the toatle.  As they had all 5000 at once and
wine
has had 550 over a ten year span.

Tom