Hi, I am a new wine and relatively new to linux user, and am having some difficulties getting a program called Multisim to work with wine. Since I am new with wine and linux, I will probably give you the entirely wrong info to help me figure out this problem, but here goes: I am running Mandrake 10.0, and using the latest version of wine. Wine seems to be largely configured correctly, at least to the point where I can run notepad with it (which may or may not be a good barometer). I have a dual boot system, with windows xp on two partitions (one ntfs for the system files, and the other fat32 for everything else - including Multisim). Since ntfs drives can't be written to by linux ( afaik ) I had to copy the 'guts' of my windows system drive to my linux partition (~/.wine/c_drive/windows). I also copied over my user data from the c drive to this 'virtual' c_drive. I set up a profile in the wine config file pointing to this directory. When I attempt to start Multisim, using the command wine /mnt/win_d/Multisim/Multisim.exe, I get the initial 'splash' screen that Multisim displays during startup. The only message displayed in the terminal is: fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub Once the loading screen goes away, nothing happens. The terminal doesn't return control, but no new window opens up. In order to 'terminate' whatever is running, I need to ctrl-C twice. I have seen some information thru googling that indicates that Multisim will work in wine, so I think it is a configuration issue. For the record, Multisim (also called Electronics Workbench) is a circuit simulation, digital design, and other EE type stuff program. The version I am using is Multisim 2001, personal edition. I haven't found any suitable linux native replacement for it, so it is one of the few things I need to keep my Windows partition for. However, I tend to use a lot of linux programs at the same time that I am using multisim, so it is very inconvenient to reboot every time i need to access multisim. If any add'l info would be helpful please let me know. Thanks for any help, and sorry for the length of the message. Jeff _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
