I keep reading on this list where drive C: is referred to as "~/.wine/drive_c" but on my system (due to no special smarts on my part that would be "~/.wine/dosdevices/c:" instead. Why this difference? Are the ones who post basing their operation on an older way of doing things? The ability to use "c:" rather than "drive_c" seems nicer IMNSHO. FWIW, I'm using version 0.9.8. I have had to skip 0.9.9 but look forward to 0.9.10(?). -- Jim
James E. Lang wrote:> I keep reading on this list where drive C: is referred to as "~/.wine/drive_c" > but on my system (due to no special smarts on my part that would be > "~/.wine/dosdevices/c:" instead. Why this difference? Are the ones who post > basing their operation on an older way of doing things? The ability to use "c:" > rather than "drive_c" seems nicer IMNSHO. FWIW, I'm using version 0.9.8. I have > had to skip 0.9.9 but look forward to 0.9.10(?).Do the command "ls -al ~/.wine/dosdevices". It should show something like: drwxrwxr-x 2 dclark dclark 4096 Mar 10 08:42 . drwxrwxr-x 3 dclark dclark 4096 Mar 14 07:44 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 dclark dclark 20 Mar 2 09:50 c: -> /home/drives/drive_c lrwxrwxrwx 1 dclark dclark 20 Mar 2 09:50 e: -> /home/drives/drive_e lrwxrwxrwx 1 dclark dclark 1 Jan 24 14:24 z: -> / The "->" notation indicates that the 'c:' entry is a symbolic link, which means the directory is not actually located there. Instead, the actual directory is home/drives/drive_c in my case, but the default location is normally "~/.wine/drive_c". So, yes, Wine actually accesses "c:" in the dosdevices directory, but the actual directory can be located anywhere in the filesystem. If "c:" is not a symbolic link on your machine, but instead a directory, Wine should still work fine.
James Trotter wrote at 16:05 on 15 Mar 2006:> On 3/15/06, James E. Lang <jelly@ktb.net> wrote: > > > > I keep reading on this list where drive C: is referred to as > > "~/.wine/drive_c" > > but on my system (due to no special smarts on my part that would be > > "~/.wine/dosdevices/c:" instead. Why this difference? Are the ones who > > post > > basing their operation on an older way of doing things? The ability to use > > "c:" > > rather than "drive_c" seems nicer IMNSHO. FWIW, I'm using version 0.9.8. I > > have > > had to skip 0.9.9 but look forward to 0.9.10(?). > > > > -- > > Jim > > Wine creates the ~/.wine folder with ~/.wine/drive_c when you run > wineprefixcreate. ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a symbolic link to > ~/.wine/drive_c. > > -JamesOh dear. Another program that I've never run! My ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: is a symbolic link to a directory (/win/c) that was once upon a time the C: drive for a Win98 system. I don't know that I've had any trouble as a result of this though. -- Jim