[Wine] Newbie needs help

[David Mohr]

On Jan 23, 2008 8:57 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> > someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a
> > .wine folder.  I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't
> > tell you for certain.  do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything
> > wine related is there.  What you need to do is put the floppy contents
> > in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install.  Let me know if that
> > doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look.
>
> Hello Douglas, thank you.
>
> This may seem pretty dumb, but what is the fake Windoze install? The
> only Windoze install I have is XP on my hda. My F8 is on hdb.

So you said you changed your C: drive in winecfg. So on my machine C:
is set to "../drive_c", but if you want to go the save route, just
delete ~/.wine and start wine which will create a fresh configuration.
Then copy your ccw/ directory to ~/.wine/drive_c, and run it by "cd
~/.wine/drive_c/ccw && wine ccw.exe".

~David

> > On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au
>
> > <mailto:gnichols at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP.
> >
> >     I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated
> >     dependencies on my Fedora 8 system.
> >
> >     I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a
> >     directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP.
> >
> >     However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and
> >     says to see if the directory is set OK.
> >
> >     There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think*
> >     the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw
> >
> >     I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of
> >     a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand.
> >
> >     Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory
> >     containing the program's files doesn't help.
> >
> >     Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is
> >     pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces.
> >
> >     I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine
> >     /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs
> >     to access the word files.
> >
> >     Also when starting it I get the following errors:
> >     [graeme at barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe
> >     Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone
> >     information in
> >     the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y):
> >     5/10/2008
> >     Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not
> >     accessible.
> >     fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16
> >
> >     How do I set the inaccessible directories please?
> >
> >
> >     Thank you.
> >
> >     --
> >     Kind regards,
> >
> >     Graeme Nichols.
> <snip>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Graeme Nichols.
> ...
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