"Out of memory" install error message

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

Carter Brey <cbrey at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,

> I've been trying to install a legacy 16-bit Windows app called 
> Expensable, published about 7 years ago by Intuit. Over the years I've 
> run it natively, under Win-OS/2, and under Wine with a native Windows 
> partition. Never a problem.

> Now that I've removed the Windows partition from my Linux box, I've set 
> up Wine to work with fake Windows. The installation is fine, and I've 
> successfully tested various Windows apps with it. But Expensable refuses 
> to install; when I run "wine a:\setup", a modal box pops up at a certain 
> point saying "Out of memory".
Fix your file permissions.

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