[Wine] Re: Problem running Windows Notepad under Wine

[Segin]

Bob Unitt wrote:
> Gentlefolk,
> 
> I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
> documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
> further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running, and Wine
> installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag trying to
> set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is clicked :-
> 
That's something that has nothing to do with Wine, actually. Since 
you're using Ubuntu, you are probably using the GNOME desktop. Sorry, 
but I don't know much about GNOME. I suggest you use the 
gnome-mime-editor program and look for something liek 
application/x-plaintext or the like, and change the association to "wine 
  notepad %" or similar, replacing the "%" with whatever meta-charater 
that the database uses to put the filename in the commandline for the 
program.

Also, You can use 'vim' to make text documents with DOS line endings, 
that is, CR-LF (which is exactly what Windows uses).

To do so, when editing your file in Vim (or gVim), or even if you want 
to convert a old file, use the following command: ":se ff=dos" (woithout 
the quotes). Then save as normal (":w").

There are also other programs, such as dos2unix which can convert UNIX 
text files to MS-DOS/Windows format.