Re: wine

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

> 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.

Tell me if you find it - I still can't connect to the internet from my
mobile just yet, although I'm getting close - gnokii has been downloaded and
compiled, and is *almost* working ;)) I shall be away from this Lookout!
nightmare very soon....

> I hadn't thought of looking for Mandrake
> documentation on wine as I thought it was a separate project, I go and
look
> now.

It is a separate project, but the nice people at Mandrake wrote a doc to go
with their install  - they cleaned up wine a bit before they put it in, I
think. At least, that was the situation with Mandrake 6.0, maybe it's
changed for 7.0. I'll drag out my ancient (!) 6.0 disk and see if I can't
find out where it was..

>  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.

There are so many standards for referencing files it's unbelievable ;) It
took me ages to work out why Microsoft had invented UNC, but they do like to
keep changing things. I believe also that SMB has gone, it's now called CIFS
or something. I doubt the samba developers will be changing *their* name
though ;) Microsoft do come up with some good stuff (LookOut! contact
management, for example), but they always seem to shoot themselves in the
foot with something equally stunning (stunning, as in, 'Why oh why oh why
did they do *that*??' LookOut! script & object support, for example - I've
already had one BubbleBoy virus clone, that's enough for me!). It's probably
good to remember that wine still isn't out of alpha yet either, so we're not
talking about software anywhere near finished yet - for what it is, it's
damn good.

Cheers,

Alex.


>
> Ian
>
> --
> 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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