Windows 3.0 apps can't find their files

[gnome at hawaii.rr.com]

Directory pathnames too long? Windows 3.0 could only understand 8.3 directory
and file names ...

Another possibility, it is looking for pathnames in the old-style Windows INI
file, since Windows 3.x had to concept of a registry.

david
gnome at hawaii.rr.com

>Hi,
>I've got two apps from 1990. The disk says they need Windows 3.0. The 
>first app is Clowns, and the second one is the installer.
>When I run one of them, they act like they can't find their files. The 
>installer gives an error about a missing file, which is in the same dir 
>is the executable itself and Clowns itself misses some graphics, which 
>it also does in real Windows when I can't find some files.
>Any idea how to fix this? I do not get any special errors from Wine.
>Thanks in advance, Julius