[Wine] What is Wine?

[André Carvalho]

You probably get more confused when people tell you that wine is an 
implementation of the Windows API, but if you don't know what API means, 
this definition doesn't help much.

API (Application Programming Interface), is the interface that a 
computer system or application provides in order to allow requests for 
service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow 
data to be exchanged between them.

That's what Wine is trying to do, make the applications "think" they are 
running on Windows because all the dlls needed and services are provided 
by Wine.

Also, if you are a programmer, you could compile your programm using 
wine libraries and make it run easier on Wine.

Wine is not an emulator.

André Carvalho.

Sumit Kumar wrote:

> Hello everybody,
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>    I am confused that what is wine.Is it an windows emulator
>    or not.Because at different places on net their are different
>    opinion regarding that.
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>          Again what wine stands for .Is it windows emulator or
>    something else.
>            Plz Help me.
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> regards,
> Sumit kumar         
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