On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:49:05 +1200 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #On Sun, 08 May 2005 11:33:59 +1000 #Stephen K�hn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ##On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 11:17, David wrote: ##> Hi all, ##> ##> I downloaded a copy of WINE this morning and installed no problem. I then ##> copied a proprietary database programme I used under M$ (a pedigree ##generation > programme) into its own Directory under home. So far all is well. ##> ##> However, when I go to a terminal to open the programme I get a dialogue box ##> telling me the programme is unregistered and flashes a curser to enter the ##> lience number. My problem how do I get the number into the dialogue box so ##that > the programme is recognised as being registered and therefore open. ##Every time I > try to enter the number in the dialogue box it goes into the ##terminal. > ##> Any suggestions to over come this would be welcome. ##> ## ## ##I would assume that SOMEWHERE in the original installation's MS Windows ##registry (or there abouts) is the information; what you might try to do ##instead of just making a copy of the program - make a copy of the MS ##Windows subdirs into the one created by WINE and see if that might do ##something. Trying to trace out the "license file" might be another thing ##to try as well... ## # #Thanks for your input Stephen. After more reseach on google I took some ideas #up to my linux mentor (duel boot machine) and compared the .ini files. Once we #edited the BM .ini files in Linux to that in the M$ system we can now open the #programme. Just got to get the files (db & forms) to open on my machine. They #open on the duel boot machine OK. # #
All i had to do was log out and then back inagain. We are up and running. E. David I. Taylor Linux user #389384 (http://counter.li.org) Taranaki, New Zealand the place to be Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea this mail originates from a Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005) for i586 kernel 2.6.11-6mdk & @ 21:15:09 up 2 days, 13:09, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.10
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