MSN via wine ( was Wine and XP )

[Cogman]

Adam Ingerman wrote:

>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 00:51, Magnus Solvang wrote:
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>>I have Wine working, and my Windows XP-installation mounted
>>as read only. Reading the FAQ, I noticed: "DON'T configure Wine
>>to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP)."
>>So... is it futile to try to get XP-applications running on my
>>Linux-box? Should I install them from Wine, and if so, how?
>>"wine SETUP.EXE"?
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>>I'm mostly interested in running Instant Messanger (MSN) 6.0 from
>>wine at the moment. Has anyone here managed to do this? What would
>>I need to do?
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>>- M
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>download and install aMSN. it looks almost the same as MSN 6, has a slightly 
>different set of features, and doesn't require going through wine (it's 
>tcl/tk, so it can run *nix native), which is a fair bit of a performance gain 
>(at least on my old system)
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>http://amsn.sourceforge.net IIRC
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Also, you might want to try Gaim. It supports more then one chat client 
which is very nice. (it should be gaim.sourceforge.net)