[Wine]Running DC++ 0.668 with wine-20041201

Charles N Wyble charles at thewybles.com
Fri Jan 7 12:48:47 CST 2005


You are quite correct. I need to work on my critical thinking skills I 
see :)

Holly Bostick wrote:

> Charles N Wyble wrote:
>
>> um. yes it will. not natively. but there are ways to access Linux 
>> from windows.
>> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
>
>
> Yes, I'm familiar with Explore2fs-- I used to use it myself when I had 
> Windows on this box.
>
> However, I'm not sure it's relevant in this case.
>
> The OP wants to start a DC++ download in Linux and finish it in Windows.
>
> So the question of whether you can look at the uncompleted files or 
> check the configuration using yet a third program seems irrelevant to 
> me, because the issue is whether DC++ itself can do the following:
>
> 1) see the configuration that tells it what downloads are in progress 
> and what their status is;
>
> 2) append/complete the partially downloaded files.
>
> Which won't be possible from Windows if the originally started 
> downloads and the configuration/current status database are on a Linux 
> file system (which Windows can not natively read or write to, so DC++ 
> Windows can't read or write to them either).
>
> Unless the Linux version is run from a FAT32 fs, or I'm totally wrong.
>
> Right?
>
> Holly
>
>>
>> Holly Bostick wrote:
>>
>>> Tobias Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:31:08 +0100, Cedric wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Even if it's ported, does it allow me to start a download in 
>>>>> linux, and then finish it in windows? As i dual boot a lot i don't 
>>>>> want a DC client that only works in one system, and i doubt one 
>>>>> program can finish download of another program.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it is an excact port of DC++ with the same tempfile format it 
>>>> should
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> The website says that this is so:
>>>> "This is a project to port the DC++ direct connect client to Linux"
>>>>
>>> Do you then have to run the Linux port from a FAT32 partition? How 
>>> is Windows supposed to read the template files otherwise (or 
>>> whatever files  determine the last actual state of the 
>>> downloads-in-progress when the program was closed)? Windows won't be 
>>> able to see any of this if it's all on a Linux native filesystem.
>>>
>>> Holly
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