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Many years ago I wrote a Windows program that needs a SCSI card. It addresses the SCSI card using ASPI. Unfortunately, when I run the app under Wine, I see some errors (all beginning with 'fixme:') which suggest that ASPI isn't yet fully implemented (and as such, the app doesn't work properly). However - much more worrying is the fact that after running this app I end up with a

Hi there - I'm trying to run a Windows app programmatically (under Linux) by shelling to Wine - but I need to check its return value. Linux has various functions for obtaining a process ID but of course I end up with the ID for Wine, rather than the process being hosted. Using the process ID I can check the value returned when the process closes but once again, this retrieves the value

Recently I had to install Crossover Linux which is similar to (and based on) Wine. I needed to check whether my Windows app was compatible both with Wine and Crossover. Having installed Crossover I was surprised to find that both it and Wine are using Crossover's registry. If I run Wine's regedit.exe and make some kind of change, then I run Crossover's regedit.exe, the change I just