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Subject: Re: Shredder 9 Linux

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 04:38:35 01/07/06

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On January 06, 2006 at 15:17:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On January 06, 2006 at 15:05:58, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2006 at 15:31:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>>
>>>Another strong UCI engine to use under Linux would be Fruit.
>>>You can even use Rybka beta 32bit in Scid through wine in Linux.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Andy
>>
>>I've got pretty much a vanilla Linux box.  With wine, do I also need to have
>>Windows installed i.e. dual bootable
>>
>>Regards.
>>
>>Steve
>
>No! You don't need any windows stuff. You can just start the windows executable
>with 'wine executablename' in the terminal. Wine is just a command that
>translates the windows code on the fly during the execution.
>e.g if you have the executable of rybka just tipe 'wine Rybka.exe'.
>
>Most linux distributions provide a package for wine.
>
>regards
>Andy


Thanks Andy.

So all I need to do is download a windows executable somewhere on my machine and
then just invoke it with wine.  I'll have to give it a try.

Steve



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