[Wine] Enabling 16bit DOS on MAC?

Charles Davis cdavis at mymail.mines.edu
Sun Apr 3 12:35:09 CDT 2011


On 4/3/11 11:31 AM, bigmac909 wrote:
> Alright, I think I've done it. So just to make sure, I just highlight and delete the "--disable-win16" right out of the terminal? And then just press enter?
That's right.
> Sorry I'm being so cautious, I was told that SUDO was dangerous, even though I doubt it will do anything besides mess up wine for me.
It is, if you use it improperly. Remember, with great power comes great
responsibility.

Oh, and you should never ever run Wine under sudo. Editing and
installing ports should be done as root (i.e. under sudo, unless your
MacPorts prefix, usually /opt/local, isn't owned by root).

Chip



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