[Wine] Newbie needs help

[Graeme Nichols]

Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a 
> .wine folder.  I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't 
> tell you for certain.  do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything 
> wine related is there.  What you need to do is put the floppy contents 
> in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install.  Let me know if that 
> doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look.

Hello Douglas, thank you.

This may seem pretty dumb, but what is the fake Windoze install? The 
only Windoze install I have is XP on my hda. My F8 is on hdb.

Regards,

Graeme.

> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au 
> <mailto: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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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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