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>Free Agent</TITLE
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NAME="agent"
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>4. Free Agent</H1
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><A
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NAME="a-setup"
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>4.1. Setting up Free Agent</H2
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><H3
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><A
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NAME="AEN349"
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>4.1.1. Configuring Wine for Free Agent</H3
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> Wine is capable of "emulating" many different versions of Windows.
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Wine is not perfect, however; it runs slower than a normal Windows installation
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and it is not a stable product. Certain problems occur when running Free Agent;
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these are discussed in the
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"<A
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HREF="agent.html#a-problems"
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><I
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>Problems and Issues</I
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>" section of
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the document.
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</P
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> Before Free Agent can be run under Linux, a certain file from a Windows
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installation need to be copied to Free Agent's root directory. The
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instructions are similar for both Windows 98SE and Windows XP configurations.
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Below are the instructions describing how to configure Wine for Free Agent.
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</P
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><P
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> First, find the section "<TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>[Version]</TT
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>" in the
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<TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>.wine/config</TT
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> file, and make sure that
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"<TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>win98</TT
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>" is the version Wine will imitate:
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="screen"
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> [Version]
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; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31)
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"Windows" = "win98"
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</PRE
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>
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</P
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> Next, add an entry to the "<TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>AppDefaults</TT
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section which will also tell Wine to use certain files from Windows rather
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than Wine.
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COLOR="#000000"
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CLASS="screen"
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> ;; sample AppDefaults entries
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[AppDefaults\\agent.exe\\DllOverrides]
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"comdlg32.dll" = "native"
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</PRE
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>
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><H3
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>4.1.2. Copying and/or Installing Required Files</H3
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> Several DLL files must first be copied to the root Free Agent directory from
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an existing Windows installation.
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</P
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> If Free Agent lies on a Windows partition on the same machine, you must copy
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the DLL files to the Free Agent root directory. Free Agent will be run from
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this directory on the Windows partition.
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</P
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> If Free Agent is being run on a Linux-only machine, you must download Free
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Agent to your fake C drive (usually <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>$HOME/c</TT
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>). You must
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then use the supplied installer according to the instructions in the
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subsection below entitled
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"<A
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HREF="agent.html#a-installer"
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><I
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>Using the Installer</I
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>."
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Alternatively, you may copy an existing Free Agent folder to your fake
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C drive. The root Free Agent directory must include the DLL files mentioned in
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the following subsections.
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><H4
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NAME="a-installer"
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>4.1.2.1. Using the Installer</H4
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> To install Free Agent, simply download the installer to your fake C drive,
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open up a terminal window, navigate to your fake C drive, and type:
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><PRE
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CLASS="screen"
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> wine <TT
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>installer</TT
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>.exe
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</PRE
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(where <TT
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>installer</TT
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> is the name of the installer). Installation
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should work fine from here. Be sure to copy the DLL files mentioned in the rest
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of this section to your Free Agent root directory before running the program.
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</P
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>4.1.2.2. Copying required files</H4
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> The Windows DLL file <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>comdlg32.dll</TT
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> needs to be copied to
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the Free Agent root directory. Under Windows 98SE, the file is usually located
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in <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\</TT
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>. Under Windows XP, the file is
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usually located in <TT
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CLASS="filename"
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>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\</TT
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>.
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</P
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NAME="run_agent"
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>4.2. Running Free Agent</H2
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> Using a terminal window, navigate to the root Free Agent directory and type:
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> wine agent.exe
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</PRE
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</P
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> Use Free Agent normally, noting the exceptions in the next section, entitled
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"<A
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HREF="agent.html#a-problems"
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><I
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>Problems and Issues</I
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Note that these are problems with Wine's "emulation," not
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Free Agent.
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</P
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>4.3. Problems and Issues</H2
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NAME="AEN389"
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>4.3.1. Fixed-width fonts and alt.ascii-art</H3
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> ASCII art requires fixed-width fonts to view. Only the font "Misc
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Fixed" will work.
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</P
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> To change the font, go into Options -> Display Preferences -> Fonts ->
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Fixed-Pitch Body. Make sure the font "Misc Fixed" is being used.
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NAME="AEN393"
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>4.3.2. Cannot post binaries</H3
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><P
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> If a Wine version greater than 20030813 is being used, an attempt to add an
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attachment to a message will not open a file dialog box. Try to use Wine version
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20030813 whenever possible.
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</P
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>4.3.3. Cannot save messages or binary attachments</H3
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><P
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> If a Wine version greater than 20030813 is being used, an attempt to save a
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message or binary attachment will not open a file dialog box. Try to use Wine
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version 20030813 whenever possible.
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