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From: Esa Riihonen 
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Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:24:37 +0200
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:17:36 +0000, Moog wrote:

> 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?

I have Crossover Office (from CodeWeavers) on my Ubuntu (6.06) laptop.
And Internet Exploder seems to work OK under it (not used it much though).
So it seems quite possible to get IE work under Wine.

Cheers,

EsaR
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