On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, dan wrote: > Pavel, > > Thanks, > > Yes /mnt/win98 is mounted as 0777 and word still can't write. > > The error messages are in 8.3 format, it may be a word config thing. > > Dan You thnaked me for my comments, you quoted them, but AFAICT, you didn't read them. A fat32 partition can be mounted either msdos or vfat. If it has the fstype msdos, Linux will limit filenames to 8.3; with "Filesystem" = "win95" (or "vfat"), Wine will not. The result will be that any attempt to write a file with a name that is not 8.3 will fail, probably with a messagebox. A fstype of auto will try filesystems in the order they appear in /etc/filesystems if it exists, or in /proc/filesystems, and use the first one that works, be it msdos or vfat. to fix that, umount the filesystem, change its /etc/fstab line to be fstype vfat and remount it. Of course this is pure speculation, but it is one reason an app might not be _able_ to create a file even though it may be permitted to. You could also try running wine --debugmsg +file blah.exe 2>&1|tee logfile to see what Wine is trying to do and what joy it is getting doing it. Lawson ---oof--- ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
