On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 10:43 -0500, donbnfborn@aol.com
wrote:> I'd like very much to be able to run "The Master Genealogist"
under
> Wine. TMG is a MS Visual Foxpro application for genealogy database
> work. On my Kubuntu 6.10 system I have successfully downloaded and
> installed Wine 0.9.30, and then installed TMG ver. 6 including updates
> to 6.12, the current version. During TMG installation, there was a
> problem with a lack of "keyboard.dll", which I fixed, so now
there are
> no errors until I attempt to run TMG. Upon running the executable,
> I'm getting Foxpro errors, which are beyond my ability (I'm no CS
> major). I've tried both Win 2000 and Win 9x modes -- still no joy. I
> think it's close to running, but there is a little
"something" that is
> not quite right.
>
> Is there a Foxpro programmer on the list who could take a look at the
> error messages and give me a little advice? I've offered to become the
> Application Maintainer for TMG if I can get it running stable. There's
> a huge installed base of TMG users -- probably some would come over to
> Linux if there was a proven reliable way to run it.
I grabbed the trial.
It's lacking some font, and some dll. Try opening an xterm, cd to the
directory, and run
winedbg tmg.exe or
WINEDEBUG=<something snazzy> winedbg tmg.exe
You get specific errors that way
