On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tony Lambregts wrote: > Chris wrote: > > >Greetings, > > > > I am a new wine user, and im hoping you could let me know if what I want to > >do is possible with wine. > > > >I have a win32 console application (I would assume since it does not run in > >DOS mode). This application will read in a text file, find what its looking > >for, process it, and creates another file(s) from that (just to give you an > >idea of what the program does). What I would like to do is use wine to do > >the win32 console emulation, but I will not be running XWindows or have > >windows installed on another partition (I only have room on my second HD and > >the windows 98 setup wants it on the primary, any suggestions?) Is this > >feasible using wine? I have searched the web and the wine docs but could not > >find a reasonable answer. Please keep in mind that I am brand new to wine > >and as much info/pointers/web site's would be GREATLY appreciated. > > > >Thanks, > >- Chris > > Wine absolutely does not, not, not, require any Windows partition or filesystem. A Windows "drive" can be a directory in a native Linux or other *NIX filesystem. See <wine>/documentation/installing.sgml, the section on installing without windows. A little long in the tooth, but might help. Feel free to use this nasty little program to read the sgml: #!/bin/sh #<wine>/documentation/*.sgml reader (c) 2000- Lawson Whitney # Use, distribute, or change at your own risk. sed -e 's/<[^<>]*>//g' -e 's/</</g' -e 's/>/>/g' $1 |less -ni Lawson _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
