<SNIP> > I have to say that I feel the same about Wine. I run a legal > > application that uses Folio Views (Terrible software!) and it is a > > real pain to get in running every time that Wine changes. Since the > > latest dosdevices change I haven't been able to get it going at all. > > There's a lot of debate about issues like this on the wine-devel > mailing list. There's also versioning issues in the .so that does most > of the work, which they're trying to form sensible policy on. > > They are, in my opinion, doing the right thing. They're trying to move > away from the massively abused configuration file that has been with > WINE since its inception (as far as I know). In the long term, you can > expect this to make it easier to get things to work, rather than > harder; but there are definitely migration issues. > > The only thing that changed in the dosdevices patch was that the drive > definitions were moved out of the config file and turned into (easier > to manage) symlinks. If you can tell us more about the problems you're > seeing, I'll try to help you get it working again. > > James.
Actually, I think that I need to apologise. Folio Views is so bad that it doesn't even work properly on new versions of Windows. It's just that it is the only piece of Windows software that I have any reason to run and (not surprisingly) it chokes Wine unless everything is just so. Until they put out a version which works with all versions of Windows, I don't think it is worth the effort to try to get it running properly with Wine. At least I don't think it is worth any of your time. Cheers, Alan <SNIP> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
