Flash Drive

Mike or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com
Tue Jul 18 09:07:25 EDT 2017


On 7/18/2017 3:31 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> As I understand those links, portableapps.com works on these other operating systems by using Wine, a virtual windows emulator.
> So, you'd install a windows emulator on your linux machine (125mb) in order to run gnucash as a portable app on a stick so as to save installing Gnucash (175mb) on your hard drive.
> That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
> David
>   
That would be true if there were only one Windows app requiring the 
emulator. It would scarcely pay just for gnucash. But if there were 
several, another kettle of fish. The person who was asking the initial 
question has a "very small primary hard drive" and so presumably would 
want to run whatever could be run from an external drive that way. Not 
JUST gnucash << even though at the moment, only gnucash the issue >>

Michael D Novack


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