wine users - Aug 2004 - MagiC PC installer doesn't like wine

I've wine installed as part of SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro and it works fine for
several windows prgs.
I try to install the Atari emulator Magic PC (because it is better than STonX).
Wine starts the installer of MagiC, Setup.exe, which gives the message
"can't open ...
Setup.ex_".
Setup.exe works under win98 but under wine it looks for itself with the wrong
extension .ex_
MagiC PC test version can be downloaded from  www.application-systems.de/atari/

Any idea? Robert Best
-- 
http://rwbest.planetaclix.pt/

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Robert Best
wrote:
> 
> I've wine installed as part of SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro and it works fine for
> several windows prgs.
> I try to install the Atari emulator Magic PC (because it is better than 
> STonX).
> Wine starts the installer of MagiC, Setup.exe, which gives the message 
> "can't open ...
> Setup.ex_".
> Setup.exe works under win98 but under wine it looks for itself with the 
> wrong extension .ex_
Most setup files are self-extracting executables, which then run a
compressed setup program contained within - that's why in many setup
programs at the beginning you get a dialog box indicating that it's
preparing its xxx setup wizard to help you install the program.  It's
possible that Setup.ex_ is a data file that is supposed to be executed
after the selfextract routine to run the program.  It might also be an
issue with poorly designed routines that call other programs.  Can you
give a context to this error, such as what generated the error message
(the program or WINE), and what portions of the program did work, and
any error messages that might have been displayed on the underlying
console (assuming you start it from an xterm)?
> MagiC PC test version can be downloaded from  
> www.application-systems.de/atari/
I'd look into this more, but I'm short on time, don't understand the
language, and don't have time to look for a computer translation site. 
Might look into it later.  See if anyone else helps.
> Any idea? Robert Best
> -- 
> http://rwbest.planetaclix.pt/
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On Thursday 12 August 2004 08:30, Robert Best wrote:
> I've wine installed as part of SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro and it works fine
> for several windows prgs. I try to install the Atari emulator Magic
> PC (because it is better than STonX). Wine starts the installer of
> MagiC, Setup.exe, which gives the message "can't open ...
Setup.ex_".
> Setup.exe works under win98 but under wine it looks for itself with
> the wrong extension .ex_ MagiC PC test version can be downloaded from
>  www.application-systems.de/atari/
>
> Any idea? Robert Best
Drag the lot from an installed windoze folder into "same folder" under
wine (saves having to mess with the config). Been a while... there was 
a showstopper on booting (NVDI iirc). If you can figure that out it'll 
work pretty well thereafter.