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

Henri Girard henrigirard at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 7 13:20:12 CST 2005


a very interesting tool.. i forget it too...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles N Wyble" <charles at thewybles.com>
To: "Holly Bostick" <motub at planet.nl>
Cc: <wine-users at winehq.com>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Wine]Running DC++ 0.668 with wine-20041201


> 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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> >>
> >>
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