On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:27:41PM +0100, Enrico Horn wrote: > > Hi, > > Ive been trying to get Heroes III to work with wine > > and I found that it cant load some file it needs > > because DOSFS_GetFullPathName > > return the path to that file without the backslash at the end > > although heroes3 asked for it with a backslash at the end. > > it asks for .\\DATA\\ and the method returns > > <path to heroes3>\DATA <---- missing backslash > > in the method the last backlash is removed when > > no driveletter is in the requested pathname. > > > > I'd like to know why this was implemented like this as I > > cannot understand the reason for it. > Err, it wasn't implemented like this intentionally, I guess ;) > > I know that there's some trailing \\ problem somewhere, > and I intended to fix some functions but haven't had enough time yet. > > What you want is finding out which Win32 API function returns this > string to your program. > Then either fix it directly in this function, or, if really appropriate, > fix it in some Wine internal function, and maybe that is actually > DOSFS_GetFullPathName like you said. This is Debian bug #101751 (which includes a somewhat ugly patch, it was submitted to wine-patches, but so far ignored by the wine community). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=101751
