small docu update
Andreas Mohr
andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Thu May 1 16:27:30 CDT 2003
Hi all,
- improve intro text
- describe alternatives to Wine
Index: documentation/introduction.sgml
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RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/introduction.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 introduction.sgml
--- documentation/introduction.sgml 19 Apr 2003 02:50:57 -0000 1.11
+++ documentation/introduction.sgml 1 May 2003 21:24:33 -0000
@@ -80,22 +80,21 @@
<para>
Once you got your copy of Wine, you might need to follow the
next chapter <link linkend="compiling">Compiling</link> if you
- got Wine source code.
+ decided to get Wine source code.
Otherwise, the next chapter <link
linkend="installing">Installing Wine</link> will explain the
- methods to use to install the Wine files to some location
- on your system (alternatively the chapter <link
- linkend="compiling">Compiling</link> will explain first how to
- compile Wine if you choose to use Wine source code).
+ methods to use to install the Wine binary files to some location
+ on your system.
</para>
<para>
Once Wine is installed on your system, the next chapter <link
linkend="config-wine-main">Configuring Wine</link> will
- focus on the available configuration methods for Wine: there are
- either graphical (e.g. WineSetupTk) or text mode (wineinstall)
- configuration helper applications available that will
+ focus on the available configuration methods for Wine to set up
+ a proper Wine/Windows environment with all its requirements:
+ there are either graphical (e.g. WineSetupTk) or text mode
+ (wineinstall) configuration helper applications available that will
fully configure the Wine environment for you.
- And For those people who dislike a fully automated
+ And for those people who dislike a fully automated
installation (maybe because they really want to know what they're
doing), we'll describe how to manually set up a complete Wine
environment configuration.
@@ -103,8 +102,9 @@
<para>
Once the configuration of the Wine environment is done, the
next chapter <link linkend="running">Running Wine</link>
- will show you how to run Wine and how to satisfy
- the requirements of certain Windows programs.
+ will show you how to run Windows programs with Wine and
+ how to satisfy the more specific requirements of certain
+ Windows programs.
</para>
<para>
In case you run into trouble, the chapter <link
@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@
program package e.g. available on CD), or as natively compiled
<ulink url="http://www.xfree86.org/#whatis">X11 (X-Window
System)</ulink> applications (via the part of Wine that's called
- Winelib). If you're interested in compiling your Windows program
- source code, then please refer to the Winelib User's Guide
- instead, which explains this particular topic.
- The Wine Users Guide however will focus on running standard
+ Winelib). If you're interested in compiling the source code of a
+ Windows program you wrote, then please refer to the
+ Winelib User's Guide instead, which explains this particular topic.
+ This Wine Users Guide however will focus on running standard
Windows applications using Wine.
</para>
@@ -440,7 +440,49 @@
</tgroup>
</table>
</sect1>
-
+
+ <sect1 id="competition">
+ <title>Alternatives to Wine you might want to consider</title>
+
+ <para>
+ We'll mention some alternatives (or we could also say:
+ competitors) to Wine here that might come in handy if Wine is
+ not usable for the program or job you want it to do, since
+ these alternatives usually provide better Windows compatibility.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>VMWare</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.vmware.com">VMWare</ulink> is a
+ software package to emulate an additional machine on your PC.
+ In other words, it establishes a virtual machine that can be
+ used to run any kind of Intel x86 compatible operating system
+ in parallel to your currently running operating system.
+ Thus you could use Linux and at the same time run Windows 98
+ in a virtual machine on the same screen.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Sounds nice, doesn't it? Well, there are some drawbacks, of
+ course... First, VMWare is pretty expensive, and second, you
+ need a licensed copy of the operating system you want to run.
+ Third, since VMWare is a virtual machine, it's quite slow.
+ Wine doesn't have any of these limitations, but unfortunately
+ this also means that you will not have the relatively good
+ compatibility of a real original Windows system if you use
+ Wine.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Win4Lin</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.win4lin.com">Win4Lin</ulink> by
+ NeTraverse allows you to run a special version of Win98 in
+ Linux. Compared to VMWare, this has the advantage that it's
+ faster, but you still have the license fees.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="wine-stats">
<title>Basic Wine Requirements</title>
Index: documentation/running.sgml
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RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/running.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 running.sgml
--- documentation/running.sgml 19 Apr 2003 02:50:57 -0000 1.19
+++ documentation/running.sgml 1 May 2003 21:24:35 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
<para>
Written by &name-john-sheets; <email>&email-john-sheets;</email>
+ Modified by &name-andreas-mohr; <email>&email-andreas-mohr;</email>
</para>
<para>
Extended by &name-mike-hearn; <email>&email-mike-hearn;</email>, &name-eric-pouech; <email>&email-eric-pouech;</email>
@@ -15,6 +16,16 @@
support programs etc.
</para>
+ <para>
+ This chapter will describe all aspects of running Wine, like e.g.
+ basic Wine invocation, command line parameters of various Wine
+ support programs etc.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+
+ </para>
+
<sect1 id="basic-usage">
<title>Basic usage: applications and control panel applets</title>
<para>
@@ -73,10 +84,10 @@
remember to include the double quotes. Some programs don't
always use obvious naming for their directories and EXE files,
so you might have to look inside the program files directory to
- see what it put where
+ see what it put where.
</para>
</sect1>
-
+
<sect1 id="running-wine">
<title>How to run Wine</title>
<para>
@@ -152,7 +163,7 @@
<sect1>
<title>Explorer-like graphical Wine environments</title>
-
+
<para>
If you don't feel like manually invoking Wine for every program
you want to run and instead want to have an integrated graphical
@@ -377,7 +388,7 @@
wineserver specific debugging output (not to confuse with Wine's wineserver logging channel, --debugmsg +server, though!).
</para>
</sect2>
-
+
<sect2>
<title>-h</title>
<para>
@@ -447,7 +458,7 @@
be to change the "path" setting in the wine config file's <link
linkend="config-wine">[wine]</link> section.
</para>
-
+
</sect1>
<sect1 id="CUI-programs">
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