* Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> [2006-01-30 21:38 -0800]: > xyzzy wrote: >> The preferred way of running the install is to run an application called >> "start.exe" on the CD. This failed strangely. >> >> $ wine /media/cdrecorder1/start.exe >> Start a program, or open a document in the program normally used for files >> with that suffix. >> Usage: >> start [options] program_filename [...] >> ... >> start.exe version 0.2 Copyright (C) 2003, Dan Kegel > > Sorry 'bout that. It looks like many people are starting to run into > this. What happened is, win9X had an app called "start.exe", > so I added one to Wine. WinXP made that a cmd.exe builtin command, > though, and got rid of the standalone start.exe. Now apps > are starting to depend on windows not supplying a start.exe. > > You can probably work around that by removing start.exe from > c:\windows\command. One of these days we'll figure out > how to do that right. That doesn't work, but removing start.exe.so does. > Sorry, I can't help with the rest of your problem, but at least > I shed some light on the mysterious start.exe failure. Thank you for providing a c:\windows\command\start.exe as windows does/did, but why does wine use it instead of the one given on the command line (with an absolute path, no less)? I can assure you that windows 98, which has start.exe, doesn't do that . -- Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn MACINTOSH - Most Apps Crash, If Not, Then Operating System Hangs
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