Re: Encyclopaedia Britannica on Linux

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Hi!
> 	I got hold of the CD version of the EB, and have tried to run it
> from within Linux with wine (I don't have a Windoze licence). I managed
> to install netscrape and the EB db on the windows directory, but when I
> start the EB software, I get this problem: the program asks me for the
> EB CD-ROM, which is inserted and "supermounted", but the software won't
> recognise it, and will prompt for it ad nauseam. I played around with
> the EB ini files, and changed everything to lower case (as a Linux dir
> on the CDrom shows to be), but still no success. I also put a label in
> wine.conf for the CD as detailed in the documentation (dd if....), to no
> avail.

I have a similar problem with Mirkysoft Autoroute 98. Despite various hacks 
nothing has worked (yet)...if you solve this, let me know :)

Chris...


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