"Unable to open file..."

Andreas Mohr aqi46g09cu001 at sneakemail.com
Sat Feb 10 11:23:59 CST 2001


bhalco at my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <20010210.004616.134622664.0.lawson_whitney at juno.com>,
>   wine-users at winehq.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> It found the file, it read the file, it doesn't like what it read.
>> At least, that is how it looks to me.  Bear in mind that windows apps
>> don't really know what they are doing (if they did, they would not use
>> the hideous windows API...) so message boxes are inherently
> misleading.
>> This mail will be sent by an app that raises a message box
> "Insufficient
>> memory or disk space" unless I use native riched32.dll.
>>
>> The app may have expectations for what is a valid .ta0 file.  If the
>> file doesn't meet them, the app can't open the file.
>>
>> Lawson
>>
> It wouldn't surprise me for this to be a misleading error message.
> In fact, I first suspected a low-disk-space problem.  So I freed
> up some space and reinstalled the program.  It made no difference.

> However, the program does read the file correctly if I boot Windows 95.
> The problem only shows up when using Wine.

No need for wondering what the hell went wrong.

run wine --debugmsg +relay,+file,+dosfs prg.exe &>/tmp/wine.log
, compress wine.log and send it to me.

Andreas Mohr



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