Office XP? Windows XP dlls? mIRClocked up.

[Joseph R. Hoot]

I've read through some archives on the users mailing list and found some 
answers to getting Wine 20020122 going.  I didn't have to change much 
with the default way tools/wineinstall.  Here's my questions

1) Does Wine run programs that live in a native Windows XP vfat 
partition using the native dlls?

2) Does Wine run Office XP, even if it is buggy?

3) Can it run programs such as Propellerheads' Reason?


I am currently running Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.4.18-pre3.  My system 
is running great.  It lives on half of the hard drive, while my WIndows 
XP Professional lives on the other half of the hard drive.  I would like 
to be able to run Outlook XP (Just because we have Exchange here at work 
:(... Exchange is junk, if you ask me).  I have wine running using my 
/mnt/windows vfat mount as the C:\.  I have modified my ~/.wine/config 
to reflect my C:\Documents and Settings\Joe\ user Profile and added some 
PATH arguments to include.  But besides that, I haven't done much with 
the wine setup.

If I run  wine "C:\\Program Files\\mirc\\mirc32.exe"&  it will run 
mirc32.exe very quickly.  It then allows me to connect to IRC and join 
some channels.  It then freezes after about 30 seconds.  I normally use 
KVirc for IRC in linux, which I prefer actually, but I am just testing 
wine at this point.  Eventually I will try to get games going.

I know I have a few questions here, but whatever help anyone can give is 
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Joe Hoot