Did you get asked that?Ģnd EDIT: Okay, I think I actually AM running TIS. The instructions state that the program should ask this right after it asks me to specify a hard disk or CD installation. Is this what Windows users feel like all the time?ĮDIT: One more thing I noticed - whenever I'm running the TIS setup, it's not asking me weather or not I want to install a desktop shortcut (icon). It's supposedly installed - but I can't find it anywhere. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to run TIS. So now both TIS and Sysadmin appear as installed programs in my WINE Control Panel. It then proceeded to download a ton of files and then said setup was complete. I was able to get the needed ODBC drivers installed and successfully installed the Sysadm utility as a standalone app on my desktop.

I'm no guru but the provided documentation was adequate for me.

Mission accomplished.Īnyway if you decide to try it, expect half an hour of setup.

The WineBottler app lets you package a WINE application as a stand-alone icon on the OSX desktop, and loads WINE under the covers with no fuss. NOTE that my X11 likes to start the windows minimized for some reason, so just zoom them fullscreen from the menu. and it only consumes about 100MB of RAM in my case. TIS asks if the odbc install succeeded, say yes and carry on.Īssuming you do it correctly, you get this: you may see a prompt to re-install the odbc drivers i said 'yes', waited for the odbc sub-install to begin, then canceled it. Install the Sysadmin shell, then the TIS as per the included instructions. Once WINE is installed, use the wine-dos prompt to navigate to the TIS DVD and run autorun.exe. The KEY difference here is that you are not running XP, just emulating the core libraries, so WINE actually runs faster and takes less memory than truly running XP inside Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

Select XP as the emulated operating system. You'll need an OSX machine with at least v10.5.x and apple's X11 installed Install Wine and create a Prefix with the ODBC dlls included via the Wine Control Panel. Note that I did have to buy a TIS DVD for $20.00 off ebay. If don't know what the TIS is, you can skip this post and go back to thinking about bunny rabbits or something.įor those still here, the solution I used was the free windoze emulator called WINE compiled for OSX along with an application packager called WineBottler. The same theory should work on nearly any Linux distro. Loading Parallels and a full XP emulation was too slow and a also memory pig. So I wanted to get the TIS running naitively on OSX for free.

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