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Alexandre Julliard590fd622001-07-31 18:14:58 +00001This is release 20010731 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on
Douglas Ridgway692389d1998-11-22 16:56:44 +00002Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs
3and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work
4correctly.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +00005
Alexandre Julliard54837992000-12-23 00:13:05 +00006Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.com". Please don't
Alexandre Julliard0c126c71996-02-18 18:44:41 +00007forget to include a ChangeLog entry.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +00008
Alexandre Julliard590fd622001-07-31 18:14:58 +00009WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20010731: (see ChangeLog for details)
10 - 16-bit comm routines reimplemented properly.
11 - More improvements to the Postscript driver.
12 - A few more steps towards dll separation.
Alexandre Julliard5314b031999-03-14 18:02:04 +000013 - Lots of bug fixes.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +000014
15See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
16
17Because of lags created by using mirror, this message may reach you before
18the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be available
19from the following locations:
20
Alexandre Julliard590fd622001-07-31 18:14:58 +000021 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010731.tar.gz
22 ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010731.tar.gz
23 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010731.tar.gz
24 ftp://orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development/Wine-20010731.tar.gz
Alexandre Julliarde2abbb11995-03-19 17:39:39 +000025
Alexandre Julliard15dfb4d2000-12-03 04:29:05 +000026It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org.
Joerg Mayer0ee5f8c2001-02-20 01:54:50 +000027For more download locations, see http://ftpsearch.lycos.com. These
28locations also hold pre-built documentation packages in various
29formats: wine-doc-html.tar.gz, wine-doc-txt.tar.gz, wine-doc.pdf.gz
Alexandre Julliard65fcd9e2001-03-26 20:57:09 +000030and wine-doc.ps.gz.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +000031
Alexandre Julliard4ba574d1998-10-18 17:19:57 +000032You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check
Douglas Ridgway692389d1998-11-22 16:56:44 +000033http://www.winehq.com/dev.html for details.
Alexandre Julliard4ba574d1998-10-18 17:19:57 +000034
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +000035If you submitted a patch, please check to make sure it has been
36included in the new release.
37
Alexandre Julliard65fcd9e2001-03-26 20:57:09 +000038If you want to receive by mail a patch against the previous release
39when a new one is released, you can subscribe to the mailing list at
40http://tiger.informatik.hu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wine-patches.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +000041
Alexandre Julliardd37eb361997-07-20 16:23:21 +000042Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
43AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
Alexandre Julliard3a5816f1994-12-27 14:11:53 +000044
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46Alexandre Julliard
Alexandre Julliard230479f2000-07-16 21:10:05 +000047julliard@winehq.com