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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:40:15 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message , Moog  
writes
>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'm pretty sure they are different programs. Definitely different 
executables.


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Bernard Peek
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