[Raytrace] Re: ATM OSLO LT works under wine on linux

[Ron Standage]

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Hi Michael,

This is very good news.  I am collecting reasons for dumping XP from my
laptop and doing everything on Linux.  Thank you very much!

Ron


Michael Peck wrote:
> 
> 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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