Question about ~/.wine/dosdevices/

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Sun Nov 13 15:42:32 CST 2005


Sunday, November 13, 2005, 12:46:34 PM, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Brian Vincent wrote:
>> > I am missing the idear behind how devices are suppose to work.
>> If any of that documentation is unclear, let me know and I'll rewrite
>> it to make it better.
> I have read this, but is does not explain what the behavour is/suppose to
> be when there exists an /mnt/windows. dosdevices/c: always points to 
> ../drive_c. So the doc does not answer the questions I asked:
>
> But how are dosdevices/c: related to my /mnt/windows? Are files first 
It doesn't. ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: points to what windows programs will see as a
"c:" drive.

Please never point your c: drive to the real windows drive - that won't help
wine at all but it might brake your windows beyond repair.

Vitaliy




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