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From: Moog 
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Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:17:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Bernard Peek illuminated the devils arse on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:13:44
+0000, by typing:

> Thanks. It's a good idea but I'm a bit doubtful about it. The problem
> (as you know) is that TP consist of two different parts. "Turnpike
> Connect" is the part that connects to news/mail servers, downloads the
> messages, and files them in the central database. I'm pretty sure that
> this will run under Wine without any great difficulties.

Yup. I'd agree with that.

> The other part is "Turnpike Explorer" which is a Windows Explorer shell
> extension. Essentially it's a plug-in for Windows Explorer. It uses
> Explorer to handle displaying the data. Getting that running under Wine
> is not going to be a trivial exercise, even if the Wine team were
> interested in tackling it. I don't think that TP is worth the
> considerable effort required, but if they have already done it for
> another purpose TP might be able to piggyback on that effort.

There are a few guys who have managed internet explorer under wine (check 
out "ies4linux"). My memory may be playing up here, but isn't internet 
explorer a plug in for windows explorer?

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Moog

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