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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 1997 03:37:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
To:        dburr@POBoxes.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Commercial WABI (Windows emulator) for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199709131037.DAA04683@foo.primenet.com>
References:  <XFMail.970913000106.dburr@POBoxes.com>

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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write:

>Is there a commercial WABI (Windows binary emulation) available for
>FreeBSD?  If so, what is it called, who makes it, how much does it cost
>(if it matters, I am a full-time [community] college student), and where
>can I get more information on it, and possibly order it?

I don't know of any commercial ones for FreeBSD.  I do know that both
WINE and Willows are available for free, although I don't think
Willows is ported to FreeBSD yet, and WINE is alpha.

>Someone told me that some company (Caldera?) makes a commercial WABI for
>Linux.  Is this true?  If so, does anyone know if it will run fine under
>the FreeBSD Linux emulation?

I believe that someone has licensed Sun's WABI.  I don't know if it
will run under FreeBSD.

>I need it because I would like to run QUICKEN under my FreeBSD session
>without having to reboot to (ugh) Win95.  My goal is to completely do away
>with Win95, and I almost have all of the pieces that I need.

Have you looked into an alternative to Quicken, such as cbb ?  While
it doesn't do everything that Quicken does, AFAIK, it does let you
balance your checkbook, and I find it quite nice.  There are
other alternatives (xfinans, and others) as well.

>If it matters, I run 2.2.2-RELEASE.

-- 
bryan k ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>   http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/



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