wine and aol

John spam at jabster.net
Thu Mar 15 18:19:03 CST 2001


Or you can email aol and convince them to release a client for linux. They 
are working on one. Or at least they were at one point.

--john

Daniel Foesch quipped:

>>Is there anyone who have sucessfully run aol modem connection under
>>wine ?
>>
>>Thank's for any help
>>
> 
> AOL implements a lot of crap.  Technically it does not provide a connect
> to the internet, but rather a tunnel to the internet through the AOL
> service. (which is why you get crappy ping times because you're getting
> translation on two
> ends)   You're very much likely NOT going to get any sort of a connection
> in
> AOL through WINE, even in the near future. (project anyone?)  So I suggest
> you
> look into some solution with VMWare or Win4Lin.  I have had experience
> with VMWare, and it does work at least with TCP/IP connections.
> 
> You know, if I didn't have to start up VMWare for AOL... It'd get pretty
> rusty.
> 
> Daniel "Krach" Foesch
> ---------------------
> "I'm all in favor of regulations dictating a standard placement of
> directions on frozen foods" -Lyle McCracken
> 




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