Wine & Superbase

[Andreas Mohr]

Jim Locker <support at softwareforlandlords.com> wrote:

> Hello, all.

> I am a very experienced computer user/developer who is new to Linux and to 
> Wine.

> I have decided to migrate off of Windows - can't stand Microsoft and have 
> only been using their products due to sheer necessity.  In order to 
> migrate, I need to have Wine working just about completely.  Because of 
> that, and because of my background, I will probably volunteer to help in 
> the not distant future.  At this time, I am still becoming familiar with 
> the Linux organization and I am just starting with Wine.  When I have 
> learned enough to be useful, I will try to contribute.
Cool ! :-)

> But right now, I am trying to get Superbase running under Wine.  Has anyone 
> done this?  SB is a 16 bit app (which, I hope, will soon be updated to a 32 
> bit app) and I am trying to access my Win NT system.

> The Win NT system is on an NTFS partition, which is write protected.  I 
> have read a lot of messages on this board, and evidently write protected 
> Windows folders have been a problem for other people.  So, I can try to 
> clear some space and move my WinNT folder to someplace writeable.  Haven't 
> done that yet.
Yep, that's definitely not good.
Just use a writable ext2 or so directory instead.

> The command line option which has done the best for me (so far) is this:

> wine --dll commdlg32,commdlg=n,b+shell32,shell=n,b --managed --synchronous 
> /mnt/windows/sb30/sb30.exe &

> This line returns no errors, but after an extended pause I get these 
> messages:
>  
> Warning: Modules 'commdlg' and 'comdlg32' have different loadorder which 
Err, "commdlg32" ??
Check your spelling ;-)

> may cause trouble
> err:seh:UnhandledExceptionFilter Couldn't start debugger (drwtsn32 -p 
> 134638760 -e 68 -g) (2)

> I don't think the warning is a big deal; if I reverse the load order or 
> don't specify, I get error messages that state commdlg is being 
> instantiated twice.

> Any help would be appreciated.
Well, that should definitely help.

Just ask if you need some more help to get familiar with Wine.

Andreas Mohr