Douglas A. Whitfield wrote: > someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a > .wine folder. I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't > tell you for certain. do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything > wine related is there. What you need to do is put the floppy contents > in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install. Let me know if that > doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look. Hello Douglas, thank you. This may seem pretty dumb, but what is the fake Windoze install? The only Windoze install I have is XP on my hda. My F8 is on hdb. Regards, Graeme. > > On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:gnichols@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP. > > I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated > dependencies on my Fedora 8 system. > > I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a > directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP. > > However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and > says to see if the directory is set OK. > > There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think* > the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw > > I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of > a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand. > > Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory > containing the program's files doesn't help. > > Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is > pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces. > > I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine > /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs > to access the word files. > > Also when starting it I get the following errors: > [graeme@barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone > information in > the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y): > 5/10/2008 > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16 > > How do I set the inaccessible directories please? > > > Thank you. > > -- > Kind regards, > > Graeme Nichols. <snip> -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
