These converters are based on WINE. My experience is that they work on
many simple apps but are hopeless for complex ones. The WINE people, who
developed the converters, are much more cautious than the guys who have
wrapped them into commercial packages. In any case, it doesn't get round
the sloppy programming that Windows imposes, so you get the worst of
both and the advantages of neither (unless they are written in Java, in
which case you should not need WINE, in any case).

Brian

"" wrote:
>
> We held out, and probably were the last company with a network to switch to
> Weindoz, but finally was forced to do it by the Y2K non-issue.
>
> We had more support issues, and system failures in the first 3 months using
> Weindoz than we had in the previous 10 years on the old DOS system.
>
> The good news is this is a "metastable" situation.  (I had the term
> "metastable" explained to me by being told to imagine a pyramid balancing on
> its point.)  Everybody knows all of this, and there are people right now
> spending their professional careers trying to give us non-Microswill
> choices....so this WILL change.
>
> Slowly, it wll get right, the economic "pressure" is to great....
> Unfortunately it will be WAY too slowly for most of us.
>
> Rudy Sedlak
>
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