winecfg dosdevices unusable

Evil wine at eternaldusk.com
Thu Oct 27 19:37:51 CDT 2005


I noticed this as well last night when I was testing some Windows
programs for compatibility.  I'm glad Wino mentioned it here, because I
almost forgot.

I went into the dosdevices directory and set up the links manually,
because it's real hard to get non-fubar'd results with winecfg.

-Jesse



wino at piments.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just getting into a fresh installation with 0.9
>
> ran up winecfg and tried to add a device for my dvd burner.
>
> editing the device name is unusable. No cursor , then after a first 
> character is entered the edit seems to jump to insert mode and puts
> the  cursor at the begingin of the line. There seems no way enter text
> normally  to enter a device name.
>
> This whole interface seems badly broken. I had to fall back to good
> old  command line to sort out the mess made by winecfg and add the
> devices I  need.
>
> Disappointing start to 0.9 , I wonder what new user would make of that.
>
> hmm.
>
>
>
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