WINE on Cygwin

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Nov 3 16:05:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running 
> Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under 
> Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a 
> Windows apps, well then just run the Windows app!

Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and
windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine
would be useful for remote program usage since it exports the display
via X11. 

bye
	ago
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