[Wine] Drive Designation

[James E. Lang]

James Trotter wrote at 16:05 on 15 Mar 2006:

> On 3/15/06, James E. Lang <jelly at ktb.net> wrote:
> >
> > I keep reading on this list where drive C: is referred to as
> > "~/.wine/drive_c"
> > but on my system (due to no special smarts on my part that would be
> > "~/.wine/dosdevices/c:" instead. Why this difference? Are the ones who
> > post
> > basing their operation on an older way of doing things? The ability to use
> > "c:"
> > rather than "drive_c" seems nicer IMNSHO. FWIW, I'm using version 0.9.8. I
> > have
> > had to skip 0.9.9 but look forward to 0.9.10(?).
> >
> > --
> > Jim
> 
> Wine creates the ~/.wine folder with ~/.wine/drive_c when you run
> wineprefixcreate. ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a symbolic link to
> ~/.wine/drive_c.
> 
> -James

Oh dear. Another program that I've never run! My ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a 
symbolic link to a directory (/win/c) that was once upon a time the C: drive 
for a Win98 system. I don't know that I've had any trouble as a result of this 
though.

-- 
Jim