wine users - Feb 2009 - Re: Cannot run Win16 installer for Judaic Classics

I ran strace without grep, and redirected stderr to a file, so that I can
analyze it peacefully and change my mind as many times as I want without needing
to run the command again (though that shouldn't be too troublesome, either).

command line:
strace wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/davkajcl/judclib2.exe &>
.wine/judaic_classics.stderr

Regarding your suggestion to capture the error messages when running wine
directly, the problem is that there are no error messages anymore, at the
command line level. As far as wine is concerned, the program runs fine, it
starts, and it interacts with the user. However, its only interaction is a
dialog box complaining about the lack of a valid CDROM in the drive.

The reason I didn't grep for anything in particular is that I have no idea
what I am looking for. I am looking for what is missing, essentially, though if
it is a registry key that is missing, then it won't show up as missing with
strace, for the registry does exist, it may simply lack the information my
program is looking for.

The way I imagine my research going, is by eliminating everything that is
obviously not important, and then looking at what is left.

Oh, and, by the way, I know regex and am fine with writing my own grep commands.
It's the what I should be excluding or looking for that I don't know.

I forgot to specify my system:

Fedora 10 x86_64 with latest wine updates in the regular Fedora repository,
wine-1.1.12-1.fc10.i386.

I have several programs running happily under wine, so the installation is
generally OK.

I ran the program with WINDEBUG=+file and got some useful output. It mentions a
bunch of files that were not found. I will have to look at it in detail.

By the way, reviewing my own posts on this thread, I saw that all the way at the
top I had already described my system.

Thanks for your continuing help, I look forward solving this enigma.

--OCC