-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Nov 2001 at 11:03, Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01 wrote: > > :Incidentally, while I'm waiting for SOL.EXE to actually start, my CPU is > > :sitting at 0%, so I don't know what wine is doing. > > > I just typed wine sol.exe from my home directory, and the cards were on > > the screen in about two seconds, so your case is certainly NOT normal. > > OK, now that about 6 or 7 people have been wading through darkness, > let me enlighten you ;-) > > Most probably it's a *huge* registry file (probably imported from Windows, > that's why). > > Use wineserver -p to work around it. > Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference :-( (I let "wineserver -p" run for about finve minutes before trying to run SOL.EXE; I also checked that it was running with "ps".) Doc Evans - ---------------------------------------------------------- D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ N7DR@arrl.net A dead lawyer in a Colorado ski resort and an Australian detective who doesn't play by the rules: "All Or Nothing" is now available. See http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR/drevans.htp for details. - ---------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBO/51g2nXrLw2KRK4EQLnsACff8haGPHBE5Wm+PwtGvPpbBmEkXcAoPeA xEyCcq9eL0i5X3VwLwOQ/dPg =Jumi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----