Oxford English Dictionary on CD

[Uwe Bonnes]

Hugh Lawson <hlawson at triad.rr.com> wrote:
: Has anybody learned how to make the Oxford English Dictionary cd run
: under wine?

: I have the Oxford English Dictionary, a wonderful reference work, on CD.  
: It runs under Windows 95 or 98.  The OED program has a license control
: program that requires you to insert the CD in order to access the data,
: under Windows.  The CD has some kind of secret key that has to be found
: before the program will run.  

: Under wine, the OED program starts but it cannot find the license
: control program.

: It would be really nice to use the OED under Linux.  What information
: should I provide for getting advice about this?

Probably there is a message where the program tells that authentification
fails,  mostly a messagebox. So run with --debugmsg +relay, try to find that
place and then go through the calls above so that you find a call
e.g. related to the cdrom that fails. Then try to cure the cause. It might
be usefull to cut down that pasrt from the log and post here. If you don't
undertsnad anything of the above, it might be usefull if you put the log on
the web so that others might have a look at it.

But the most easy thing might be to look for a cracked version...

On the long run it might be usefull to tell the manufacturer of the CDROM of
that problem.

Bye
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