Re: wine

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi Alex,

As I said in an earlier post the file:// thing is pure Misrosoft mind
reading with Outlook Express automatically changing my world into complete
gibberish! I'm sure there must be some way for me to stop it doing so but I
just haven't found it yet. I hadn't thought of looking for Mandrake
documentation on wine as I thought it was a separate project, I go and look
now. As to command format, the wine --help says you can use either dos
format commands with the \ or unix format with the /. From playing with it,
though, it doesn't seem you can mix the two in one command. Either way the
URL format with the file:// bit was unintentional and I just used the
double/ to try to specify the network machine gold as you do in samba.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK


----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 09 April 2000 10:14
Subject: Re: wine


> > 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,


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