OziExplorer works on LINUX using WINE

[Andreas Mohr]

In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Jim Doutt <jdoutt at whoi.edu> wrote:
> I've succeeded in running the wonderful charting program
> OziExplorer (3.85.3c),  http://www.oziexplorer.com/  , on
> LINUX (RedHat 6.2) using WINE 20010112.  The times to load
> the program and to load a map did take 5 to 8 times longer
> using WINE than they did using WIN95.  I was able to enable
> the serial port and have the position computed by my GPS
This is more or less WRONG. Wine is a complete Windows bootup, never
forget that ;-)

> displayed on the chart.

> I started Ozi with:      wine --managed  oziexp3853c.exe

> task                WIN95  time       WINE  time

> start pgm             10  sec                   80 sec

> load chart              6 sec                   50 sec
> 13235_1 NFN

Hmm, now "load chart" is astonishing. That shouldn't happen.
Well, some function is probably rather bad here ;-)

> The program will also download waypoints from the GPS, but
> this feature did not work under WINE (and did work OK with
> WIN95).
Hmm, serial comm problems again ?

Andreas Mohr