Re: wine

[Ross <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

Hi ian,
i've been using wine for several months now and it is pretty impressive.

On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Ian Wright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to use wine? All the links I can find to
> documentation (except the man page which is just a list of meaningless
> gobbledegook to me) lead nowhere! Do the windows progs have to be on the
> same machine as wine? 

no, but it helps....

> I have tried to run simple windows progs (calc.exe,
> notepad.exe) over my net but either wine won't do it or my idea of commands
> is way off. I have tried 'wine-debug -winver win95
> "file://gold/c/windows/calc.exe" ' (IGNORE THE file: bit, damned MS Outlook
> Express insists on putting it in whenever I use a double / and I can't find
> out how to stop it!). I have also tried several other variations on the
> command but all to no avail. Please help.
> 
> Ian
> 

stick with something simple like

wine /windir/windows/calc.exe     (assuming /windir   is the windows partition)

before you can run it though, you must configure the configuration file!!!!!!
it's location depends on the release you are using (the latest release has
moved the location of the conf file) if it is the latest release you are using,
you should have 2 registry files in your home directory (they seem to be using
the same concept as MS)

once this is done, comands like this can be used

wine C:\windows\calc.exe

if you want a sample conf file, let me know and i'll post it.
-- 
Thanks,
        Ross
               ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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