win98 trashed & !$!$ files

[Walter Polkosnik]

Wine (20000213-1) has apparently trashed my win98. Many files seemed to
have been moved to directories named !$!$!$!$.*. Windows starts, but
almost nothing works since programs have been moved to these to these
directories. Any help in fixing the situation will be greatly appreciated.

This is on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.14).

winecheck gives

This script verifies the configuration of the whole Wine environment.
Note that this is an ALPHA version, and thus it doesn't catch all problems !
The results of the checks are printed on the right side:
OK         - test passed without problems.
SUSPICIOUS - potentially problematic. You might want to look into that.
BAD        - This is a problem, and it leads to configuration score penalty.
CRITICAL   - A critical problem which can easily lead to malfunction.
FAILED     - This problem leads to Wine failure almost certainly.

The result will be printed as a percentage score indicating config completeness.


--------------------------- checking Wine base files ---------------------------
001. Checking for file "wine"...                            OK.
002. Checking for correct .so lib config (please wait)...   OK.

----------------------------- checking config file -----------------------------
003. Checking config file access...                         Read on closed filehandle <CFGFILE> at winecheck line 457.
FAILED (/home/walt/.wine/config does not exist).
- ADVICE: it is ok in case you have ~/.winerc. If you don''t, then you''re in trouble !.

--------------------- checking system devices used by Wine ---------------------
004. Checking sound device /dev/dsp...                      OK.
005. Checking audio mixer device /dev/mixer...              OK.
006. Checking MIDI sequencer device /dev/sequencer...       BAD (no kernel driver for /dev/sequencer?).
- ADVICE: module loading problems ? Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt.
007. Checking device needed for DGA (option "UseDGA"): /dev/BAD (/dev/mem is not readable for you).
- ADVICE: Use chmod as root to fix it ("man chmod").

----------------------- checking registry configuration ------------------------
008. Checking availability of winedefault.reg entries...    CRITICAL (entry "SHAREDMEMLOCATION" not found).
- ADVICE: file winedefault.reg doesn't seem to have been applied using regapi.
009. Checking availability of windows registry entries...   CRITICAL (entry "Default Taskbar" not found).
- ADVICE: Windows registry does not seem to be added to Wine. This can affect many newer programs.

9 tests. 0 suspicious, 2 bad, 2 critical, 1 failed.
Wine configuration correctness score: 9.78%


-- 
Walter Polkosnik
Physics Department
University of California, Santa Barbara