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I recently sent an email to the developers of Taxcalc and got
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As you will see they currently rely on "Internet Explorer
technology" for their product.  Is this a complete showstopper as
far as running TaxCalc with Wine?  I assume they rely on
having IE installed.</span></font>
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Tony Pursell</span></font>
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AppDB maintainer for Taxcalc</span></font>
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Dear Mr Pursell</span></font>
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Thank you for your email.</span></font>
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Yes, we are considering Linux and Mac OSX versions for the
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are looking into ways of doing this at the moment.</span></font>
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Our current reliance on Internet Explorer technology does cause
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with this but, again, we are looking into other options here.</span></font>
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Nothing will happen this year but it would be nice to think that
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could offer this solution for TaxCalc 2009. If you don't mind I will</span></font>
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keep a note of your details and contact you if and when we have
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option!</span></font>
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The summary export retains a lot of formatting settings but,
CSV would</span></font>
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be better than nothing as a fall-back. It is an interesting thought</span></font>
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though ... I will discuss this with the other developers. It is worth</span></font>
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noting that the screens displayed are effectively HTML and as
such, if</span></font>
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you 'drag-select' the content and paste into open office
spreadsheet you</span></font>
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may get a similar result.</span></font>
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Thank you once again for your feedback.</span></font>
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Kind regards</span></font>
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Greg Case</span></font>
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TaxCalc</span></font>
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From: Tony Pursell [</span></font>
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Sent: 21 June 2008 17:32</span></font>
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To: Support</span></font>
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Subject: Survey, etc</span></font>
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I have just completed your survey. </span></font>
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I notice that you have Linux (with Windows emulation) listed as </span></font>
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one of the selections under operating systems.  I would very </span></font>
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much like to move over to Linux as my usual operating system </span></font>
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but your's is one of the programs that locks me into Windows.  I </span></font>
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have tried to run TaxCalc experimentally on Ubuntu Linux using </span></font>
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Wine, but with no success.  Do you know if anyone has done </span></font>
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this successfully?  If not, would it be of interest to you to know if </span></font>
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it can be done? </span></font>
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