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linux support #154667 31/07/06 02:33 AM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 1 I icelated OP Mostly harmless
OP icelated Mostly harmless I Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 1	it would be nice to run mirc under unix without wine. you cant do much with it while its running in wine. this would be easy to implement.

Re: linux support #154668 31/07/06 03:15 AM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,741 G genius_at_work Hoopy frood
genius_at_work Hoopy frood G Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,741	http://forums.mirc.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=589&an=0&page=0#589 -genius_at_work

Re: linux support #154669 31/07/06 03:18 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,252 Ontario, Canada R RusselB Hoopy frood
RusselB Hoopy frood R Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,252 Ontario, Canada	Read this sticky

Re: linux support #154670 31/07/06 09:12 AM
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 108 The Underworld F Firestarter Vogon poet
Firestarter Vogon poet F Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 108 The Underworld	Why is it limited in your opinion using wine? I run a few mirc bots from my nix box using wine, I have had no problems at all with it. Please specify what the problems are. Fire

Re: linux support #154671 24/08/06 05:25 AM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 26 D Dromedary Ameglian cow
Dromedary Ameglian cow D Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 26	even a lightly scripted mirc client crashed pretty commonly for me when i tried running it in whine.

Re: linux support #154672 24/08/06 05:34 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,252 Ontario, Canada R RusselB Hoopy frood
RusselB Hoopy frood R Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,252 Ontario, Canada	Maybe next time you should try using Wine rather than whine (joke). I don't know what caused your problems, as I've got a fairly heavily coded bot running on mIRC via Wine and using the Xandros version of Linux, and it's actually crashed fewer times than the version of mIRC that I run on my Windows XP system.