Adam Bower wrote:

500Mb?! that sounds a bit wrong to me. Unless you have all the source kicking around and have built it from scratch.

I had source code and the .tar.gz was about 8Mb I think. Looking in the source directory after compiling, MC makes it 429Mb, of which the largest chunk seems to be the /dll subdirectory at around 305Mb. Also, there's around 107Mb in /usr/local/lib/wine and some other executables, etc., dotted around. Do you think I've done something silly? Why would it generate so much in the source directory that doesn't seemingly make it into /usr/something-or-the-other?

There are packages that are around 35Mb (compressed tgz for slackware so admittedly it will be bigger when installed) maybe try one of them?

I don't relish the thought of downloading 35Mb on a modem that seems to connect at 44000 at fastest! I only had the source because Ian Douglas was kind enough to copy it onto a CD for me.

Maybe when I get around to looking at Slackware 9.0 I may find the TGZ package on there.

Anyhow I have used Wine to run Microsoft Office in Linux before, and I use it to run Digiguide for windows also, I think a couple of years back I also made Half-life work so it does indeed work with a fairly broad selection of applications.

To be fair, I have now actually found 1 CD that runs on it and that's a car workshop manual CD. However, I'd already extracted the set of PDFs from this CD and copied them to my HDD so that I could read them with acroread, so it's a bit pointless using wine for that. What I really desperately need is for the RS and Farnell cats to run. No luck there, though....

Gerald.