basic question

Peter Jay Salzman p at dirac.org
Mon Oct 22 17:32:01 CDT 2001


hi gerard,

thanks for the reply!  at the risk of sounding ... juvenile, does your answer
("depends largely on the app") change at all if i say "i'm mostly interested
in running games"?

pete


begin: gerard patel <g.patel at wanadoo.fr.invalid> quote
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:56:14 -0700, Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >i'm about to install wine on my debian system.  is it better to use libwine
> >for the dll's or is it better to use MS's dll's?
> 
> There is no general answer to this question. It depends
> on the application you are trying to run. Many apps will
> run better with all builtin. But some will need some special
> functionality not yet implemented by Wine.
> >From what I have seen, many complex recent Ms apps 
> need 'native' dlls to run.
> Well known apps like Agent or Lotus Notes run better
> with all builtin it is said.
> 
> Gerard

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