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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