wineserver: /root/.wine/config is not a valid registry file

[Ove Kaaven]

On Thu, 3 May 2001 cacook at freedom.net wrote:

> Do you have valid registry files in $HOME/.wine?  If not run wineinstall or wineconfig. (depending on whose Wine you have)

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.wine/config is *not* the registry, but it has the same format and uses
the same loader as the registry. Most likely, the .wine/config is empty
and unconfigured, and a configuration must be created.

> > Why I'm not using /etc/wine.conf, /usr/etc/wine.conf or
> > /usr/local/etc/wine.conf?

Because those files are obsolete, deprected, incompatible with the new
registry-style format that .wine/config now uses, and will never be loaded
by recent versions of Wine, right? It's not necessary to say why...