FYI, The Regex Coach 0.9.2 (and 0.9.1) works just fine on my Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 Linux under Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). HOWTO: Type (or copy & paste) these commands in a terminal window. Note the '$' represents the (non-root) user prompt. $ sudo aptitude install wine wget $ wget 'http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks' $ bash ./winetricks vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 $ wget -O regex-coach-0.9.2.exe 'http://weitz.de/files/regex-coach.exe' $ wine ./regex-coach-0.9.2.exe Notes: * regex-coach-0.9.2.exe is just the usual TRC installer * You will find the tool in the Applications, Wine, Programs, The Regex Coach menu. * Do NOT install Wine directly from the web, use the package management system (usually RPM or APT/deb) built-in to your Linux distro and version. If you stray from that you will regret it sooner or later--probably sooner. Trust me. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) http://www.winehq.org/ http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks Hope this is useful, JP PS--It might be useful to update the "Older versions, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac" section of http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/, since it is so easy to get it working. ----------------------------|:::======|------------------