I remember well the early days of AOL and the internet. I learned then on
Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and even MAC OS 7.1 & 7.5, AOL does its own socket
programming. In fact, after using AOL with early versions of windows, people
would be calling me to say that their Windows Internet stuff didn't work. Why
not? Simple. the AOL Winsock.dll had replaced the "real" one and not been
swapped back when AOL exited.
Therefore, I would suggest you contact the folks at TWIN to see if they have
facilities to handle the AOL special winsock.dll. WINE's current version will
not handle it.
Civileme
"Clyde J. Kell" wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> These lists have been a tremendous help in times past. I hope you folks
> can help with this little project. I have Mandrake 6.0 with the KDE Gui,
> and the WINE pkg included with the install.
>
> I've re-configured the wine.conf file located in the /etc directory for my
> system, my two msdos drives. I want to run AOL4.0 16bit/Win3.1 through
> Linux with wine.
>
> I've been able to successfully startup aol from Linux using the following
> command within an Konsole session: ./wine /dos_c/aol40/aol.exe
>
> Bingo, AOL opens up after sending several error msgs.... I just click OK on
> them to get through. I'm able to logon directly with AOL and or logon AOL
> through a TCP/IP connection. Which is established with linux PPP.
>
> Here's the problem. When I open e-mail or try to do anything on the AOL
> client. The screen freezes and I have to CTRL BackSpace out of Xwindow.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?
>
> Regards,
> Clyde J. Kell
