Some newbie questions

[Melissa Reese]

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Hi,

I'm new to Linux (Mandrake 9.2, running KDE desktop), and new to Wine. 
I have two hard drives in this computer, with WinXP installed in one, 
and Mandrake 9.2 installed in the other.

Though I've managed to successfully get one Windows program running 
under Wine (MessageCleaner), I'm still a little confused...especially 
in trying my hand at getting one more Windows program installed and 
working under Wine.

The way I dealt with "MessageCleaner" is as follows:

1) While booted into WindowsXP, I sent myself the installation file 
   for MessageCleaner. Then, when I booted into Mandrake, I saved the 
   file to a directory. I then did the following in a console (as 
   "user", not as SU): 

$ wine [path to directory...]/MessageCleanerInstall.exe 

2) All went well, and it looked like a regular installation of the 
   program was taking place, and the new program ran just fine. Not 
   yet familiar with just where the program was "installed", I went 
   to "Home" (Konqueror), and performed a file search for 
   "MessageCleaner". Two results came up. The first result pointed to 
   the directory where I had saved the MessageCleaner installation 
   file (as seen in the above mentioned command), and the other 
   result, interestingly to this newbie, was to: 

/mnt/windows/Program Files/MessageCleaner 

This last bit got me thinking, because I was a little confused as to 
why, when I ran my "new" MessageCleaner, it showed that it was 
already "registered", and showed the serial number used in my WinXP 
installation of MessageCleaner. So... 

3) In trying to figure out how I was to run MessageCleaner, I decided 
   upon a bit of trial and error, and I did the following: In 
   Konqueror, I navigated to: 

/mnt/windows/Program Files/MessageCleaner/MessageCleaner.exe 

I right-clicked on "MessageCleaner.exe", and chose to put the 
location in my "Bookmarks". I then went to my Bookmarks, and clicked 
on it, telling it to open with /usr/bin/wine (and I checked the 
option to have it always open with wine). This works! :-) So then... 

4) I got bold, and wanted to see if I could repeat all the above 
   mentioned steps for one more Windows program, so I went to the web 
   and downloaded the installation file for another program that I'm 
   already running in WinXP, and tried to run the same type of 
   command that I describe in step number 1 above. This time, 
   however, after hitting <enter>, nothing happened. The cursor in 
   the console just remained where it was (the line below my 
   command), and did nothing. So...I continued the experiment, and 
   did the following: 

5) Pondering the fact that my MessageCleaner seems to be running 
   *from* the /mnt/windows/... directory, I tried to do the same 
   thing with this other program, which I also already have installed 
   on my Windows drive. Wine "thinks" for a bit, then disappears, and 
   no program runs. 

I've decided to postpone any more trial and error for the moment, and 
ask you good people what I might try to see if this other program can 
be "installed" via Wine, and run here.  The program in question is a 
Windows email client (The Bat!), and I've been told by other's that 
they have run The Bat! successfully under Wine.  Can anyone give me 
some ideas as to how I might get TB! working under Wine?

Thanks!

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Melissa

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