D. R. Evans <N7DR@arrl.net> wrote: > -----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".) Yeah. And *then* run it *again*. -- Andreas Mohr, Renningen, Germany In case you need to contact me after expiry of temporary email address: my eternal (hopefully) email address is frqr2001 at the domain sneakemail.com