[Bug 37000] DELISprint does not run

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37000

--- Comment #3 from Hans <hans011 at ib-lederer.de> ---
Well, this is kind of confusing…   DELISprint looks quite antique and
unintuitive like from the days of Win98 and NT.  It uses old tools, an old
database and a long-deprecated installation method (all user data and
configuration inside the program's folders).  Nevertheless it is currently (as
of mid-2014) actively advertised, nay, FORCED upon its commercial customers by
DPD :-(.  

I tried now several installations on a very old machine with 32-bit Linux Mint
Debian Ed. and on a new machine with x64 LMDE, both with 32bit Wine 1.6.2 via
synaptic, in a fresh .wine_DPD prefix as XP, with only jet40 pre-installed via
winetricks (which pulls mdac27).  

Installation is actually a two-step process:  DELISprint_Setup.exe creates the
program's path (default ~/.wine_DPD/drive_c/Program Files/DPD/DELISprint and
subfolders) and data.  Then it offers to "run the DELISprint Installer".  

If one accepts that offer, Setup closes (the terminal with its command line is
freed again) and DELISprint starts up on its own.  There is only one exe, id
DELISprint.exe, which obviously on first run goes into installation mode, 
creating at least one more folder and importing for minutes lots of CSV data
into its db.  

On both the old 32-bit machine and the new x64 machine with Wine 1.6.2 however,
default installation ran faultless.  Hmm?  But on the new machine no printers
were found…  A subsequent start with 
 WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_DPD wine .wine_DPD/drive_c/Program\
Files/DPD/DELISprint/DelisPrint.exe 
succeeded.  

On the first x64 machine with Wine 1.7.15 this 2nd default installation run
fails to create some folders, so it is incomplete, so DELISprint hangs on
second start.  Subsequent cd to the executable directory, avoiding unix paths,
is too late then.  I'll try some variants on that machine, too, but only in
some weeks after my holiday.  

This looks like some regression in Wine 1.7.15?  

For now, I'll recommend installation into the non-default path
.wine_DPD/drive_c/DPD/DELISprint/DelisPrint.exe and declining the offer to
start the second installer but cd'ing to that path and starting DelisPrint.exe
directly from there.

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