Misc FAQ improvements

Tom twickline at skybest.com
Sun Jul 20 23:33:01 CDT 2003


Mike Hearn wrote:

>
>           Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS
>-          Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX. 
>+          Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX operating systems such as Linux. 
>

Why not just  : Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on 
UNIX operating systems.
Wine runs on BSD, Solaris, OSX as well.

>@@ -440,7 +448,12 @@
>           taken place. That said, the documentation is often bad, nonexistent,
>           and even misleading where it exists, so a fair amount of reverse
>           engineering has been necessary, particularly in the shell (Explorer)
>-          interface.
>+          interface. The biggest problem facing Wine though is simply lack of
>+	  manpower. At one point, over 5000 people were working on Windows 2000.
>+	  While Wine doesn't need to replicate all of Windows (we only cover the
>+	  parts needed to make Windows programs work), that's still nearly 10 times
>+	  more people working simply on one release than have <emphasis>ever</emphasis>
>+	  worked on Wine, in the history of the project.
>

should you note at one given time ?

> 
>@@ -1142,7 +1161,7 @@
>       <answer>
>         <para>
>           Make sure you have all the VB runtime libraries installed. You may
>-          need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll
>+          need to use the native DLL vbrun60.dll. You can get some from dll-files.com.
>
some or them or just "it" if you only need the one dll ?


Tom





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