wine doesn't work

[g.patel at wanadoo.fr]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:05:03 +0200, Neyaz Polus <neyaz at telia.net>
wrote:

>Hi
>I am a biginer on wine and Linux RH7.1  my wine doesn't work, what ever
>i did .
>Does any one have a an idea what the followin error message means and
>how i could make wine works ....
>
>$ wine /c/windows/notepad.exe
>Invoking /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin /c/windows/notepad.exe ...
>Wine failed with return code 1
>/usr/bin/wine: line 6:  9594 Terminated              tail -f $log_name
>$

It seems you are using codeweavers wine  - it wraps the real
wine  in a script; it seems that error messages are not displayed
in this case :-/

try to run directly 

/opt/wine/bin/wine.bin /c/windows/notepad.exe

to see if there is a more complete error message.

Gerard