Re: wine

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> this is what I use in my '/ect/wine/wine.conf '   though!

Yep, Ross' wine.conf looks eminintly sensible..

> i'm not up on on networking, but the 'flie://' seems a little too windows
like
> to me!!!!! maybe just
>
> 'wine /gold/c/windows/calc.exe'
>
> would do! you can either use unix file format wit the '/' or the windows
format
> with the 'c:\' not a mixture of both! '  \\ ' is windows NT (i beleive) '
file://'  i
> don't know!

All three things are different, IIRC. You have this sort of problem with
Samba. C:\, and stuff like that, is straight DOS-like filename access.
file:// is a URL specifying file transport, kind of like ftp. \\ is a WinNT
UNC (Universal Naming Convention?), which looks like URLs, but isn't, and
specifies server & directory. You can't mix and match all three. Personally,
I like the URL naming scheme, since it gives you more information than the
other three, but I don't think you can use that with Wine ;)

> you must get /wine.conf sorted first though...... the man pages are good.
just
> persevere!

>From what I remember of running it, there were a couple of 'gotchas' where
things were explained a little ambiguously, and took me a little while with
fiddling to get it how I wanted it, but certainly the Mandrake install is
very good from what I remember of it (I don't currently have Wine at the
moment..)

Cheers,

Alex.

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