[Wine] Re: Software Profili2 on Ubuntu by Wine

[akrobaticone]

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 15:02 -0600, akrobaticone wrote:
> 
> > Have you some news for me?
> > 
> > 
> I suppose you do know that the airfoil design parts of Profili were
> originally just a graphic wrapper round XFOIL. If you look in the
> installation directory and find XFOIL.EXE you'll know its still true. If
> airfoil designs is all you need Profili for, you can download XFOIL from
> here: http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/
> and compile it as a native Linux application. Its open source, released
> under the GPL and compiles with the GNU f77 FORTRAN compiler - this is
> just a preprocessor and set of extra libraries for the GNU C compiler
> and will be a separate package for most distros. 
> 
> There is a binary OS X version of XFOIL linked from the same page.
> 
> For drawing up plans there are a number of CAD packages available for
> Linux. I'm still using TrueCAD on an ancient W95 box, so can't talk
> about them except to add that any self-respecting CAD package should
> export and import DXF format drawing exchange files and, failing that,
> most can also handle HPGL files. DXF transfers preserve layering and
> scale. HPGL doesn't, but with some work you can put that back.
> 
> 
> Martin


Thank you for answer
Yes I know that Profili is Xfoli based and I will try to make your suggestion.

Profili is very popular software used by many people.
I think that is a good thing use it in different linux OS based and many Linux users are no able to program and compile software.

For this reason I try to install profili by Wine.
In the past I have installed profili with succes in ubuntu 10.10, but now with the same procedure in another Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.10 are the same error with .mdb file.

If I can find a solution will be a succes for me but also for Wine and probably some users will abandon Windows for Linux

The engine for mdb files are jet 40 and mdac
for some unknow reason it work sometimes and sometimes no
Why?