ACR program can't access CDROM under WINE

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Paul wrote:

> On Saturday 18 May 2002 07:46 pm, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Paul wrote:
> > >  Error Message: File not found: ':\acr\gu\images\gu2.bmp'
> >
> >                                    ^
> > Looks like there ought to have been a drive letter here. Maybe you should
> > look into why it isn't there.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for your response.
> Yes thats why I tried running different windows programs that accessed the
> CDROM to make sure it was setup correctly. Since I don't have the source
> code, if its a programming error I will have to give up.
>
> My WINE config file for the CDROM setup reads as follows:
>
> [Drive E]
> "Type" = "cdrom"
> "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "Label" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "FileSystem" = "win95"
> "Device" = "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd"
>
> I just don't understand why it runs OK underwindows. It seems like it should
> be able to concatonate an E to the path ':\mnt\gu\images\gu2.bmp' and go
> about its business.

Maybe because you don't invoke it by the unix filename in windows?  A
program that parses the command line itself will be confused by a unix
pathname, I think.

Lawson
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