wineserver: /root/.wine/config is not a valid registry file

[Christopher Morgan]

Having valid registry files in ~/.wine/ has nothing to do with
~/.wine/config not being a valid registry file.

Chris



On Thu, 3 May 2001 cacook at freedom.net wrote:

> What a condescending post.  It's people like you who remove the joy from learning new software and pushing the envelope, and frighten insecure people..
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> Please read my answer more carefully, Ove.  You did not understand it.
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> Ove Kaaven wrote:
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> > On Thu, 3 May 2001 cacook at freedom.net wrote:
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> > > Do you have valid registry files in $HOME/.wine?  If not run wineinstall or wineconfig. (depending on whose Wine you have)
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> > Please. If you're going to answer posts, follow these guidelines:
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> > 1. Know what you're talking about. Wrong advice is worse than no advice.
> > 2. If you don't know what you're talking about but feel like answering
> > anyway, make it clear that you're only guessing, so nobody mistakes such
> > answers for authoritative.
> > 3. Quote correctly. Quote only relevant parts, and put your answer
> > *below* the quoted text, not above, and don't quote everything.
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> > wine/config is *not* the registry, but it has the same format and uses
> > the same loader as the registry. Most likely, the .wine/config is empty
> > and unconfigured, and a configuration must be created.
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> > > > Why I'm not using /etc/wine.conf, /usr/etc/wine.conf or
> > > > /usr/local/etc/wine.conf?
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> > Because those files are obsolete, deprected, incompatible with the new
> > registry-style format that .wine/config now uses, and will never be loaded
> > by recent versions of Wine, right? It's not necessary to say why...
> >
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