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

[cacook at freedom.net]

What a condescending post.  It's people like you who remove the joy from learning new software and pushing the envelope, and frighten insecure people..

Please read my answer more carefully, Ove.  You did not understand it.
--
C.

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Ove Kaaven wrote:

> 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)
>
> Please. If you're going to answer posts, follow these guidelines:
>
> 1. Know what you're talking about. Wrong advice is worse than no advice.
> 2. If you don't know what you're talking about but feel like answering
> anyway, make it clear that you're only guessing, so nobody mistakes such
> answers for authoritative.
> 3. Quote correctly. Quote only relevant parts, and put your answer
> *below* the quoted text, not above, and don't quote everything.
>
> 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...
>
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