add instruction for running wine on linux 3.14 and later

9 years ago · 3be5b58657
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@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ turn a perry rhodan epub from beam-ebooks into an audio file using ivona voices

 install wine and set the windows version to windows 98

+since recent linux kernels (3.14 and later) removed 16bit support which
+windows 98 mode requires, do:
+
+	$ echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/abi/ldt16
+
 install sapi 5.1:

 	$ wine start sapi51.msi