Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint,comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: Filemaker 10 with Wine on Linux Mint Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:26:17 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: <011120131926176539%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <1lbm7dp.1geqgr2wvk7aN%clkaufmann@clk.ch> <1lbmh2b.1tmln6t1vw84w2N%clkaufmann@clk.ch> <011120130914379639%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> <1lbmjh4.vuw27uw83ggwN%clkaufmann@clk.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: YmJ22tds4W+LgDc1aUzXUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1488 In article <1lbmjh4.vuw27uw83ggwN%clkaufmann@clk.ch>, Christoph Kaufmann wrote: > Helpful Harry wrote: > > > If you really want / need to run Windows software under a different > > operating system, > > Windows XP dies, I don't want my laptop to die with it. > > > then it's best to use something that uses a proper > > installation of Windows. I don't know about Linux, but on a Mac that > > would be VMWare Fusion > > Thanks, I'll look into VMWare for Linux. The other option could be to install and update FileMaker on a real Windows PC, and then transfer the appropriate files across to the Linux WINE PC. The problem could be finding all the necessary files (you may only need the FileMaker.exe itself) or possibly the authorisation failing because it's running on a different computer. Helpful Harry