[Wine] com ports

[Joris Huizer]

Nikolas Arend wrote:
> 
> This is just a quick shot...
> I had the same problem talking to my modem on the COM port with 
> wine-0.9.16 (although I knew that it had worked before). Downgrading to 
> wine-0.9.10 in my case solved the issue. I can't tell you what changed 
> or at which exact version things broke. I just saw that wine 0.9.17 is 
> out, maybe the issue got resolved (if there was one with 0.9.16).
> Of course, downgrading wine might bring up problems with your other 
> apps, but it might be worth a try. In any case you should back up your 
> ~/.wine directory before playing around ;-)
> 

This page tells how to find out when something in wine broke (regression 
testing):
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x1344
The wine developers would probably want to know when exactly it got 
broken so they would ask you to do that regression testing anyway

HTH,

Joris