.wine (was: Re: (long) From the front lines: 20050628 release impressions)

[wino at piments.com]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:30:08 +0200, Jules Richardson  
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 13:15 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
>> 2. It *asked me* about things I might want to change-- and didn't make
>> assumptions about its own detection!! No, I really don't have a Windows
>> drive, so you were right, but I don't want my c_drive in ~/.wine so put
>> it somewhere else, thank you very much.
>
> Out of interest (I'm sure it's documented *somewhere*) what is the
> reason for the C drive to be under ~/.wine such that it's 'hidden'?
>
> It's always seemed strange given that copying data files to locations
> under the C drive seems a reasonable thing for users to do every so
> often, yet a lot of graphical file browsing tools won't show dot files /
> directories without reconfiguration.
>
> Just seems an odd default to me, although not that big a deal. (I tend
> to do most of my work from a shell, so I don't care personally :-)
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
>
Just guessing but maybe so you dont accidentally delete it whilst tidying  
up your home .

There should be a symlink in dosdevices to c: for normal file operations