wine and microsoft word file write errors ???

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Dan Sawyer wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Wine is getting solid enough that it is appropriate for some real work,
> however it still is failing write with write errors from MS Word.
> Updates, reads, edits, fonts, etc all seem to be fine. However any write
> causes a disk full or permissions error. I am running as root root in
> this case and other programs under wine write w/o error.
>
> If it is any clue the file name shows up as all caps in 8.3 format i.e.
> LONGFI~1.DOC as opposed to longfilename.doc. This is true for all the
> writes from MS Word. The partiction is FAT32 and is configured:
>
> >[Drive C]
> >"Path" = "/mnt/win98"
> >"Type" = "hd"
> >"Label" = "win98"
> >"Filesystem" = "win95"

but how is it mounted?  That controls what can actually go on the
filesystem, not how it is configured to wine.  Linux fstype vfat handles
fat12/16/32 with long filenames.  Wine is only a *NIX application
program.  It doesn't control the host OS.
> >
> (BTW what is the relationship of "win95" and FAT32 ??)

None.  win95 is a wine filesystem type (how you want the underlying
filesystem presented to the windows apps.  (long filenames allowed, but
semi-case-insensitive)  I use it with ext2.).  fat32 is a trivial extension
to the msdose fat filesystem.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers or advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Sawyer
>
Lawson

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