Need help!!! Newbie to Wine.

Christopher Morgan cmorgan at wpi.edu
Mon Aug 6 15:22:45 CDT 2001


I'm not sure what you mean by the xterm environment... the windows
environment and the mapping from local paths to windows drives is done via
the ./wine/config file, is this the kind of thing you are referring to?

Thanks,
Chris



On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Anthony Brice wrote:

> Fine and understandable. So all I should have to do now is get my Lotus client
> cd and install the product onto my laptop? If that is the case I will do that.
> Is there a way to put wine on to execute a program in the Xterm environment?
>
> Anthony Brice
>
> Brandon Kilgore wrote:
>
> > Wine is not designed to give you a windows environment (i.e. Windows
> > explorer shell), but rather allow you to run windows programs in the X
> > Windows environment.  To run a windows program, simply make sure the files
> > are in disk directory that you set up during the wine install, and type
> > wine program.exe (replacing program.exe with the exucatable you are trying
> > to run).
> >
> >   - Brandon
> >
> > At 02:33 PM 8/6/01 +0000, Anthony Brice wrote:
> > >I have installed Red hat 7.1 on my Ultra Hinote laptop. I was quite
> > >proud to get my sound working and ethernet/modem card working and X
> > >window. I was surfing on the web and notice a development product called
> > >WINE touting the capability to 16/32 API apps in the wine environment
> > >with it sitting on the Linux kernel. I got the latest rpm from the WINE
> > >website in rpm format and ran the command rpm -i wine-XXXXX.rpm(simple
> > >so far). The install seems to go okay (no errors). I tried some
> > >commands, wine --help and it came up with the help messages. I tried
> > >wine -v and it told me the release of wine(20010731). What do I do now?
> > >Does not the environment come up has Windows environment. There is not
> > >setup.exe or installshield or install.exe to do this, I even looked for
> > >winesetup.exe with no luck.
> > >
> > >If anybody is out there with the patients to speak to a newbie it would
> > >be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >How my the way I was thinking of installing wine so I could run my Lotus
> > >Notes client on it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Anthony Brice
> > >
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