[RNLD: ] Toolbox and crossover

[Rik De Busser]

Hi Nick,

VirtualBox actually does require you to have a full version of Windows,
since you have to install it in the virtual environment. So, unless you
have a Windows  installation disk lying around, it is a lot more
expensive...

Rik

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Rik De Busser
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
www.rdbusser.org
 On 25 Apr 2012 05:32, "Nick Thieberger" <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

>
> For those using Crossover to run Toolbox on a Mac: I upgraded to
> Crossover 11 and found that my Toolbox windows were scrambled, with no
> field markers displayed and weird format errors (none of which was
> present in the data file itself).
>
> I reinstalled Crossover 10.1.1 and Toolbox works again. Others on the
> Toolbox list have reported a similar experience.
>
> Alternatives to Crossover (that also do not require you to buy Windows)
> are:
> Virtual Box and Wine, see Mark Post's message:
>
> https://groups.google.com/group/shoeboxtoolbox-field-linguists-toolbox/browse_thread/thread/dda88ad9fd27298a
>
> I have installed Wine and it seems to run fine on a Mac under 10.6.8.
>
> Nick
>
> (Thanks to Josh on the Toolbox list for infor about Virtual Box)
>
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