Support for Dragon NS in Wine

[Steven Druker]

Dan,

I deeply appreciate your endeavors to broaden the number of Windows-based
applications that will run on Linux via Wine.  Your Feb. '08 message
indicated that while you had achieved significant progress for Dragon NS, it
was not yet fully functional.  Since then has more progress been made?  I'm
particularly interested in whether the professional versions of NS 8 as well
as 10 are fully supported now.

Thank you for whatever information you can provide.

Steven M. Druker
Executive Director
Alliance for Bio-Integrity

www.biointegrity.org

Home Office:  (641)  472-8008

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Steven Druker  wrote:
> I deeply appreciate your endeavors to broaden the number of Windows-based
> applications that will run on Linux via Wine.  Your Feb. '08 message
> indicated that while you had achieved significant progress for Dragon NS, it
> was not yet fully functional.  Since then has more progress been made?  I'm
> particularly interested in whether the professional versions of NS 8 as well
> as 10 are fully supported now.

I don't know about fully supported, but Susan Craigin's been
using NS 9 and 10 continuously, and she could say more
about how well they work.  (I think 8 might have some flaws
that make it less usable on wine.)  Susan?
- Dan

[Jeff Zaroyko]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Steven Druker  wrote:
> > I deeply appreciate your endeavors to broaden the number of Windows-based
> > applications that will run on Linux via Wine.  Your Feb. '08 message
> > indicated that while you had achieved significant progress for Dragon NS, it
> > was not yet fully functional.  Since then has more progress been made?  I'm
> > particularly interested in whether the professional versions of NS 8 as well
> > as 10 are fully supported now.
>
> I don't know about fully supported, but Susan Craigin's been
> using NS 9 and 10 continuously, and she could say more
> about how well they work.  (I think 8 might have some flaws
> that make it less usable on wine.)  Susan?
> - Dan

Hi

While I don't own any NS product, two open bugs to come to mind for NS
8, one affecting the installer but with a workaround, bug 15708 and
the other a user has reported a regression bug 16248 but was not
interested in running a regression test.

-Jeff

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jeff Zaroyko  wrote:
> While I don't own any NS product, two open bugs to come to mind for NS
> 8, one affecting the installer but with a workaround, bug 15708 and
> the other a user has reported a regression bug 16248 but was not
> interested in running a regression test.
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248

I think those were both for NS 7, not 8...
A full list of NS bugs is at
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Dragon+Naturally+Speaking
Looks like 9 is happier than 10...?