James Trotter wrote at 16:05 on 15 Mar 2006: > On 3/15/06, James E. Lang <jelly@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I keep reading on this list where drive C: is referred to as > > "~/.wine/drive_c" > > but on my system (due to no special smarts on my part that would be > > "~/.wine/dosdevices/c:" instead. Why this difference? Are the ones who > > post > > basing their operation on an older way of doing things? The ability to use > > "c:" > > rather than "drive_c" seems nicer IMNSHO. FWIW, I'm using version 0.9.8. I > > have > > had to skip 0.9.9 but look forward to 0.9.10(?). > > > > -- > > Jim > > Wine creates the ~/.wine folder with ~/.wine/drive_c when you run > wineprefixcreate. ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a symbolic link to > ~/.wine/drive_c. > > -James Oh dear. Another program that I've never run! My ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a symbolic link to a directory (/win/c) that was once upon a time the C: drive for a Win98 system. I don't know that I've had any trouble as a result of this though. -- Jim _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
