wine users - Mar 2006 - VDQ : Have I made a wine's nest?

Very Dumb Question here -- basically, am I in trouble? Or in other words,
I have to ask myself a Falstaffian question: "Which .wine, Bezonian?"

Let me expound.

On several lists for different parts of the problem, according to their
interest and my best judgment, I've been pursuing the topic of GPS/topo
map settings, under Crossover Office Pro 5.0.1 (CXO) using Fedora Core 4,
trying to get a couple of suites of proprietary map software to
communicate with a GPS -- most recently on grc.techtalk.linux from
news.grc.com, since that's where the interest seems to be at the present
stage.

I've made it as far as getting Garmin MapSource Topo 3.0 and Maptech
Terrain Navigator 4.02 to do all their things EXCEPT interface with my GPS
-- and that's a sine qua non, since I use the whole combination for
hunting and hiking.

Yesterday, I think it was, I discovered to my consternation that I had
no .wine, anywhere, on the machine I've been (mostly) working on.

That probably means I'm working on the machine where I had done "yum
install wine" after installing CXOPro -- only to discover that had been
needless -- and then foolishly tried to clean up by doing "yum remove
wine," thinking I had a superfluous instance. 

Whether I had an extra or no, yum must have removed everything, including
CXO's copy of wine.

So I did "yum install wine" again -- and still couldn't find a
.wine
anywhere. More by dumb luck than anything else, I simply commanded
"wine"
-- as root. That showed me that doing so *created* a .wine -- in root's
directory. 

So I went to my user prompt in my user directory, and did 

[btth@localhost ~]$ wine
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/btth/.wine'...
wine: '/home/btth/.wine' created successfully.
Wine 0.9.9
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit
[btth@localhost ~]$

Now, NOW, I can get back to trying to tell my topo map suites where to
find my GPSs -- the grc.techtalk.linux people (who have already walked me
through making symlinks in bottles in .cxoffice) think maybe that should
be in .wine -- symlinking com1 and com2 to one or another /dev/tty ; but
in which .wine?

Should I do the symlink in both root's and btth's .wine? Or get rid of
root's and do it only in btth's? Or what?? And if I should get rid of
root's, with what command? Not yum again, and probably not rpm -e (which
may be the same for aught I know).

Or am I going to have to uninstall everything from the ground up,
including my two configured and running GPS/topo map programs, and all of
CXO -- and then do the whole shebang over from scratch?? <sob, whimper,
sniff ...>

Sorry to have blundered into all this like such a clueless clod; can
somebody toss me a spare clue, please? Pretty please?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
FC4; gpsd-2.30-1;gpsdrive 2.10pre2; CXO 5.0.1
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:11:56 -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> Very Dumb Question here -- basically, am I in trouble? Or in other words,
> I have to ask myself a Falstaffian question: "Which .wine,
Bezonian?"
[....]
> Should I do the symlink in both root's and btth's .wine? Or get rid
of
> root's and do it only in btth's? Or what?? And if I should get rid
of
> root's, with what command? Not yum again, and probably not rpm -e
(which
> may be the same for aught I know).
[...]
> Sorry to have blundered into all this like such a clueless clod; can
> somebody toss me a spare clue, please? Pretty please?
Someone kindly did, under the list -- saying that I would want the .wine
for whoever was going to run the programs, and that rm -r would do the job
for the other.

So I did re -r .wine as root in root's directory; it took two or three
screensful of things, checking for confirmation, and I just kept hitting y
so long as it was taking them from .wine. So that part should be OK, I
think.

So I tried putting in the symlinks in btth's .wine -- but
hit an odd line in the result, when I looked :

[btth@localhost .wine]$ cd dosdevices
[btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ls -alL
total 20
drwxrwxr-x   2 btth btth 4096 Mar  8 10:11 .
drwxrwxr-x   4 btth btth 4096 Mar  8 10:11 ..
drwxrwxr-x   4 btth btth 4096 Mar  8 10:11 c:
drwxr-xr-x  24 root root 4096 Mar  8 10:11 z:
[btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1
[btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 com2
[btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ls -alL
total 20
drwxrwxr-x   2 btth btth  4096 Mar  9 17:42 .
drwxrwxr-x   4 btth btth  4096 Mar  8 10:11 ..
drwxrwxr-x   4 btth btth  4096 Mar  8 10:11 c:
crw-rw----   1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar  6 08:00 com1
?---------   ? ?    ?        ?            ? com2
drwxr-xr-x  24 root root  4096 Mar  8 10:11 z:
[btth@localhost dosdevices]$

Why is it claiming 20 and only showing me six?

More disturbingly, what is that next to last line with all the question
marks?? Have I messed up my dosdevices? 

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
FC4; gpsd-2.30-1;gpsdrive 2.10pre2; CXO 5.0.1
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.