"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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Tony Cox wrote:
If you are using Linux or Solaris, have you tried running the
application with 'wine' (www.winehq.com)?
I've tried several Windows native applications on Linux and
had no problems, although I've not yet tried the flight planner.
('wine' is a free Windows API emulator that runs on a variety
of other OS)

It seems to only support Solaris X86, not Sparc. And it doesn't seem
to have support for Mac OSX, either. Nevertheless, I downloaded
the source and compiled it on my Sun (sparc), anyway. It's coming up
with some errors that I might try and figure out on Monday.


I don't think that will work. As I remember, 'wine' is designed around
IA32, at least as far as running native Windows applications is concerned.
If you had the source for the Flight Planner that would be a different
matter...

(It works by actually running code from the Windows application image,
jumping out to emulator code for all Windows API calls, such as system
services and graphic calls. It converts the latter to Unix-style posix calls
and X-windows calls respectively. In typical smart-arse Unix-developer
speak,
'wine' stands for "wine is not {an} emulator", which I suppose is strictly
correct if a little misleading).

If you have Linux SUSE, 'wine' is an optional product that you can just
install from the CD.