Wine Definitions take #4 -final ?

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Tue Feb 4 15:16:45 CST 2003


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Tom Wickline wrote:

> Okay how does this look ?

I propose the following changes, nothing really major:


--- descs.txt.orig	2003-02-04 13:02:08.000000000 -0800
+++ descs.txt	2003-02-04 13:15:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -4,18 +4,21 @@

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-notepad : The windows Notepad replacement.
+notepad : The Windows Notepad replacement.

 progman : A Program Manager replacement.

-regedit : A command-line tool to edit your registry or for important a
-windows registry to Wine.
-
-regsvr32 : A program to register/unregister .DLL's and .OCX files. Only
-works on those dlls that can self-register.
-
-uninstaller: A program to uninstall installed Windows programs. Like the
-Add/Remove Program in the windows control panel.
+regedit : A command-line compatible replacement for the Windows
+regedit tool. Wine's regedit tool does not have a graphical
+interface but makes it possible for applications to manipulate
+the registry and to import .reg files.
+
+regsvr32 : The Windows regsvr32 replacement. This lets applications
+register/unregister self-registering dlls and ocx files.
+
+uninstaller: A program to uninstall installed Windows programs. Its
+functionality is similar to the Add/Remove Program in the Windows
+control panel.

 wcmd :  Wine's command line interpreter, a cmd.exe replacement.

@@ -25,8 +28,8 @@
 wine :  The main Wine executable. This program will load a Windows
 binary and run it, relying upon the Wine shared object libraries.

-wineboot : This program is executed on startup of the first wine process
-of a particular user.wineboot won't automatically run when needed.
+wineboot : This program is executed on startup of the first Wine process
+of a particular user. wineboot won't automatically run when needed.
 Currently you have to manually run it after you install something.

 winebuild : Winebuild is a tool used for building Winelib applications
@@ -46,15 +49,15 @@
 winedump : Dumps the imports and exports of NE and PE (Portable
 Executable) files.

-winefile : A clone of the win3x filemanager.
+winefile : A clone of the win3x file manager.

 winegcc/wineg++: Wrappers for gcc/g++ respectively, to make them behave
-as MinGW's gcc. Used for porting apps over to winelib.
+as MinGW's gcc. Used for porting apps over to Winelib.

-winemaker : Winemaker is a perl script which is designed to help you
+winemaker : Winemaker is a perl script designed to help you
 bootstrap the conversion of your Windows projects to Winelib. In order
-to do this it will go analyze your code, fixing the issues listed above
-and generate autoconf-based Makefiles.
+to do this it will analyze your code, fix the issues it finds
+and generate autoconf-based makefiles.

 winemine :  A clone of "Windows Minesweeper" a demo WineLib app.

@@ -65,16 +68,16 @@
 coordinates threads, and provides synchronization and interprocess
 communication primitives to Wine processes.

-wineshelllink : This shell script can be called by Wine in order to
-propagate Desktop icon and menu creation requests out to a GNOME or KDE
-(or other Window Managers).
+wineshelllink : This shell script is called by Wine in order to
+propagate desktop icon and menu creation requests to the native
+desktop environment such as Gnome, KDE or other window managers.

-winewrap : Takes care of linking winelib applications. Linking with
-winelib is a complex process, winewrap makes it simple.
+winewrap : Takes care of linking Winelib applications. Linking with
+Winelib is a complex process, winewrap makes it simple.

 winhelp : A Windows Help replacement.

-wmc : Wine Message Compiler it allows Windows message files to be
+wmc : Wine Message Compiler. It allows Windows message files to be
 compiled into a format usable by Wine.

 wrc : Wine Resource Compiler. It allows Winelib programmers (and Wine



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