[Wine] Problem on installing MS VM on wine

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 13 02:50:42 CDT 2007


Hi L. Rahyen,


- snip -
> 	As fas as I know there was some regressions related to IE but they
> are now 
> fixed. For me IE6 works perfectly fine with current WINE. I can open
> sites, 
> use menus, adressbar, toolbar, mediabar, etc.

After upgrade wine to version 0.9.43, IE6 works w/o problem.



> 	I expect no problems with 0.9.43. What about precautions they are
> very 
> simple:
> 
> 	1) Do not use 0.9.42 (it has some IE-related regressions).
> 	2) You may want to backup your ~/.ies4linux/ie6 directory before
> doing 
> anything with it. You can do that like this:
> 
> cp -a ~/.ies4linux/ie6{,.backup}
> 
> 	Now you have ~/.ies4linux/ie6.backup with the backup. It is very
> unlikely 
> that you really need this backup (probability to broke something is
> almost 
> zero) so yeah, this is just a traditional precaution and nothing
> more.

Your advice noted with thanks.


> > Noted with tks.
> 
> 	I'm sorry for a somewhat silly question but what does "tks" means?
> Never seen 
> this abbreviation before...

Sorry for the short form of thanks "tks".  Some folks use "thx"


B.R.
Stephen

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