Re: Wine and Windows programs

["john s." <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> john s. wrote:
> >  My Dad wanted to see if he could install Laplink (I think it is) on 
> > my laptop, via Wine. The laptop locked up, so the program wasn't able 
> > to 100% install. Well, after reboot- it shows that Laplink is 
> > installed, but I don't want the crap on the laptop. I'm unable to 
> > uninstall from the program and uninstalling Wine and then reloading 
> > doesn't solve anything. Anyways, the laptop has FC6 on it...
> >
> >                      Thanks
> >                             John
>
> Ah, the memories!
>
> First of all, laplink is a poor excuse of a program that performs some 
> functions poorly that have always been available in UNIX based systems.
>
> So yes we can hook two UNIX/Linux systems together with a serial 
> cable, and always have been able to.  What is it he wants to do?  You 
> might look at ckermit or minicom.
>
> As far as 'uninstalling' wine apps, they are in the home directory of 
> the person who installed it.
>
> look in ~/.wine/drive_c/
>
> Removing that directory will 'purge' anything that a user was doing 
> with wine.
>
> Good Luck!
I'm not exactly sure what the purpose was (for the installation); email 
or cd's suit me just fine. Looking in the /.wine/drive c/ makes sense... 
more of a doh! - feel kinda stupid for not thinking of it. Thanks...