On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:27 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM, ss26 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> vitamin wrote: >>> Any direct hardware access does not function on Wine with few exceptions. >>> >>> Wine does not care about what file system on a device. So none of the NTFS specific featurs are supported. >> >> Thank you, it seems this was not a good idea....... >> > It is a good idea because very few applications make use of rarely > used (and not needed) ntfs features to make them work. Being > skeptical, I believe the reason for the application doing this is just > to prevent the application from running under wine. > > John > > Doubtful. They probably don't want users to be able to get raw access to the files. -- -Austin
