Hello people. I have some questions

[Alex Martelli]

"Bruce Sass" <bsass at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
    ...
> > less: if an OS had runtime support for VB, or for Python, you
> > could use VB, or Python, to write modules for that OS, period.
> > There's no "conceptual" block -- just that, in practice, I know
> > of no such OS (for either language).
> 
> You do now...
> 
> Kernel Support for miscellaneous (your favourite) Binary Formats v1.1
    ...
> includes for example compiled Java(TM), Python or Emacs programs.
    ...
> - enable support for Windows executables using wine:
>   echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' > register
    ...
> http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html

Great, thanks!  Just for completeness, from the webpage above one
gathers this is for Linux 2.0.33 and on (with suitable patches), 2.1.43 
and on (no patches needed).  Looks like a nice little toy indeed:-).


Alex