On Thu 08 Apr 04, 10:17 PM, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Wine is a somewhat difficult program to use - you need to write out a > configuarion file that (among other things) maps directories to windows
> hard drives, and maps your printers to LPT: ports.
ken, i never had to do this. i guess the factory defaults were good enough. everything seems to just install under ~/Transgaming, which is considered to be the C drive. if i ever wanted a D drive, i'd have to fiddle with the config file. but it ships with good defaults.
as for mapping LPT ports, i've never got a printer to work under wine, so perhaps i should look into this!
> After you finish all of this, then you can run "wine c:\\windows\\notepad. > exe" or "wine /mnt/windows/windows/notepad.exe" and with a lot of luck and > prayer you'll see the windows notepad appear on your screen.
maybe wine has changed since i last used it (i've been using winex for the past couple of years), but all i need to do is:
cd ~/Transgaming winex windows/notepad.exe
and it usually works pretty well.
She's not running winex, and neither am I. Each of us is running the wine that is shipped with our respective distributions (mandrake for her, debian for me)
> Wine doesn't work with all programs reliably, so be forewarned.
yes, wine itself doesn't support direct-x. just enough to get half life working. winex is focusing on direct-x and CD copy protection (which is what makes it non-free, since they have to sign NDAs).
one very nice use of wine is to run executable flash movies. works like a charm.
macromedia is *currently* investigating flash mx support (yeah, the creating tool, not the viewer) with wine. ooooohhhh yeeeeeaaahhhhhhh..
> I had my > installation of maxplus (which I have to run under WINE) break unexpectedly > after it had been working well for a month or two. I'm thinking that it
> broke around the time I installed linux kernel 2.6, but the symptoms don't > look like they relate to the kernel at all.
that blows. it's kind hard to tell what causes that. i assume you searched winehq for breakage under 2.6?
Yeah, I couldn't find anything that they didn't claim had already been fixed.
I get "MAX+plus II - System" saying "Internal Error: Invalid window handle in max_draw_menu_bar()". I hit OK, then the main window pops up - doesn't draw itself, and says "Internal Error: Fatal application error detected"
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