Windows 3.0 apps can't find their files

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Mon Dec 15 12:23:37 CST 2003


Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got two apps from 1990. The disk says they need Windows 3.0. The 
> first app is Clowns, and the second one is the installer.
> When I run one of them, they act like they can't find their files. The 
> installer gives an error about a missing file, which is in the same dir 
> is the executable itself and Clowns itself misses some graphics, which 
> it also does in real Windows when I can't find some files.
> Any idea how to fix this? I do not get any special errors from Wine.

What version of Wine are you using? I seem to remember seeing a patch to 
Wine about a month or so ago, to make sure to check the executable's 
directory when searching for files.





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