[Wine] Newbie needs help

[Charity Abbott]

what happens when you type this?

cd /home/graeme/ccw/
wine ccw.exe

On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP.
>
> I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated
> dependencies on my Fedora 8 system.
>
> I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a
> directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP.
>
> However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and
> says to see if the directory is set OK.
>
> There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think*
> the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw
>
> I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of
> a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand.
>
> Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory
> containing the program's files doesn't help.
>
> Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is
> pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces.
>
> I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine
> /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs
> to access the word files.
>
> Also when starting it I get the following errors:
> [graeme at barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessible.
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessible.
> fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in
> the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y): 5/10/2008
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> accessible.
> fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16
>
> How do I set the inaccessible directories please?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Graeme Nichols.
> ...
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>
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