[Ieview] ieview on Vista ultimate 64bit?

[david]

Chiaki wrote:
> Dear Paul Roub,
> 
> Thank you for your e-mail.
> 
> Well, *blush*.
> 
> I got confused with IE Tab and IE view(!)
> 
> My set up is
>  - one XP PC at home (and another XP PC at office)
>  These both run IE Tab.
> 
>  - One AMD 9150e x4 computer at home that has linux and
>    Vista 64 in dual-boot setup.
> 
> On this second machine, I was toying with IE view and IE tab.
> 
> You were right. I got mixed up and installed IE view
> on Vista 64-bit by mistake while I tried to install IE View
> under linux on the second machine.
> 
> Thank you for the great package. I installed IE view
> under linux on the said machine successfully.
> 
> I also succeeded installing IE6 using IEs4Linux package and set IE6 as
> the preferred external program to view an IE-only page as was mentioned 
> in your web page.
> http://ieview.mozdev.org/ieview-linux.html
> 
> Now I can run IE6 under linux that is invoked
> with IE View from FireFox (!).
> 
> One subtle difference is, while your web page quotes
> 
>> I had to modify the iexplore-launcher script by replacing:
>>
>> wine "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "$@" &
>>
>> with the path and executable that IEs4Linux uses to launch IE6:
>>
>> /home/[your user id]/bin/ie6 "$@" &
> 
> all I had to do was simply
> inserted my path for ie6 which was
> 
>   /home/ishikawa/bin/ie6
> 
> in the path for IE and left out '"$@" &' part.
> I am not sure if I need to insert "$@" into the optional
> argument part: right now, I didn't and so it is empty.
> I only checked microsoft sites so far,  and they seem to work
> more or less with this set up.

Being the "David" who contributed that command line up there, I could 
only report it as the way it was setup on my Linux system. I'm not a 
Linux commandline guru, so cannot tell you what the "$@" and the 
ampersand do.

When WINE supports IE7, I expect IEView will support it just fine on 
Linux. Last I checked, IEs4Linux wasn't successfully supporting IE7. At 
least, on my system, it doesn't.

-- 
David
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