[Raytrace] OSLO LT works under wine on linux

[Michael Peck]

Thought I'd pass this along for the benefit of anyone who can't stand the 
thought of using Mr. Gates' products but can't find an optical design 
program for another platform.

The subject header pretty much says it all. I gave OSLO LT 6.1 a try under 
wine on RedHat Linux running on an x86 box and it ran. I did not test it 
thoroughly but everything I tried worked. I did *not* use the installer 
that you download from the Sinclair optics site. Instead I copied the 
program directory and all subdirectories from a working Windows 
installation to a directory on my Linux partition. I then cd to the 
directory containing olight.exe and type wine olight.exe (this is from an X 
terminal window). After several hundred lines of error messages scroll by 
up comes OSLO LT with pretty much the exact look and performance as on Windows.

Wine was installed as part of the initial Linux installation and I did 
nothing to configure it. I'm a complete Linux newbie [well not quite after 
spending a week getting it installed and more or less working], so don't 
ask me how to make it work. I think wine only runs on x86 machines so Mac 
owners presumably will have to look elsewhere. And in case anyone wonders, 
no I haven't joined a cult.

Mike Peck

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