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      01-19-2013, 06:06 PM   #12
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To avoid the pain in getting the TIS to work with Wine on OS-X or Linux, VirtualBox is by far the best solution if you have an old Windows XP licence lying around. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Works flawlessly (including all printing functions) on my Fedora 17 Linux box.

I actually have 3 virtual Windows operating systems on this Linux box that has 16GB of RAM - Windows 8 in a 4GB virtual machine, Windows XP in a 1GB virtual machine and DOS 6.22 (for an old version of AutoCad) in a 32MB virtual machine. All run flawlessly and concurrently (if necessary) in windows on a Gnome 3 desktop, sharing networking, USB, disk and print resources between each other and the host Linux operating system. XP actually boots in 10 seconds, even though the operating system image is stored in a file on regular disk, as opposed to solid state disk.
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