If you're expecting all of uCon to work on Wine, come back later.

If you're patient and just wanna try it, go for it.

Test it out yourself, and let me know what works and what doesn't.

Consider being an "application maintainer" at Wine for uCon.

What parts of uCon work on Linux when running it with Wine?

This list will hopefully grow, for two reasons:

1. I requested to be the application maintainer for uCon on the Wine site, so I will fix things that don't work.

2. I haven't tested everything yet, so I am only listing the features that I have verified to work.

As new features are tested and/or fixed, they will be added to this list.

Features known to work:

<·><·>The startup dialog and main window come up clean.

<·>Basic interaction with serial port works, but there is an issue with incoming characters being bursty that needs to be resolved.

<·>The telnet server that allows remote users to connect to the same port works.

<·>Scripting commands tested: SEND, ECHO, SLEEP

Features known not to work:

<·><·>Dialog boxes that require user input in the DIALOG script command do not work.

<·>Most of the Help items in the Help pull-down menu end up putting you at the Overview help page instead of the actual page requested.

How do I run uCon on a Linux box with Wine?

Here's how I do it...

Create a "ucon" directory somewhere (I created mine under my own HOME directory), and under that install all the same files and directories that are under X:/Program Files/ucon on your Windows box. If you have "tar" on your windows box, you can use it to copy the entire "ucon" directory from Windows to Linux.

Then, just cd to that directory and run "wine ucon".

Perhaps when things mature a bit, I will create a uCon package for Linux to make this a little easier to do.