Needed files from WIN dist. [BEFORE: Windows Installation under WINE]

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jon Gretar wrote:

> I think everyone misunderstood me. I'm not trying to set up windows to
> start using windows in Linux like with VMWare. Why would anyone want to
> do that.
> My problem is the fact that I need some files from MS-Windows to be
> able to run some programs in WINE. Like I need regedit.exe and other
> programs in the windows distibution.

We understand you fine.  The problem you have left, though, is that the
installer for an "OS" is not an application program of that "OS", but in
fact an instance of the "OS".  It might use application programs as
tools, as a linux install might use FI rpm, cpio, tar and gzip, but the
installer itself is not an application program.  If there are .cab files
on the distribution, maybe extract.exe can get at them.  you can run
that with wine, or with dosemu.  expand.exe might work on files named
blah.ex_, if you run into some of those.

Lawson

Everything comes from somewhere.  Everything has to go somewhere.
There ain't no such thing as a free IRQ.
---cut here


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