Hello, I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP. I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated dependencies on my Fedora 8 system. I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP. However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and says to see if the directory is set OK. There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think* the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand. Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory containing the program's files doesn't help. Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces. I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs to access the word files. Also when starting it I get the following errors: [graeme at barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y): 5/10/2008 Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16 How do I set the inaccessible directories please? Thank you. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/)
what happens when you type this? cd /home/graeme/ccw/ wine ccw.exe On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:> Hello, > > I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP. > > I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated > dependencies on my Fedora 8 system. > > I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a > directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP. > > However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and > says to see if the directory is set OK. > > There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think* > the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw > > I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of > a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand. > > Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory > containing the program's files doesn't help. > > Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is > pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces. > > I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine > /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs > to access the word files. > > Also when starting it I get the following errors: > [graeme at barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in > the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y): 5/10/2008 > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16 > > How do I set the inaccessible directories please? > > > Thank you. > > -- > Kind regards, > > Graeme Nichols. > ... > Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users at winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >
Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:> someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a > .wine folder. I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't > tell you for certain. do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything > wine related is there. What you need to do is put the floppy contents > in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install. Let me know if that > doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look.Hello Douglas, thank you. This may seem pretty dumb, but what is the fake Windoze install? The only Windoze install I have is XP on my hda. My F8 is on hdb. Regards, Graeme.> > On Jan 23, 2008 9:42 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au > <mailto:gnichols at tpg.com.au>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an old crossword program that runs OK on Win98, WinMe, and XP. > > I have installed, via yum, wine and wine-devel and the associated > dependencies on my Fedora 8 system. > > I have copied all the files from the program's install floppy to a > directory in my home folder, the same as installing it on XP. > > However, when the program tries to access the word files it fails and > says to see if the directory is set OK. > > There is an .ini file but it is binary so I cannot change it. I *think* > the program is looking for the directory C:\\ccw > > I have looked through the wine install pages on the web and it speaks of > a dummy windows installation which I don't fully understand. > > Running winecfg and setting the C drive to point to the directory > containing the program's files doesn't help. > > Can some one point me in the right direction please? This program is > pretty basic and it doesn't appear to need any Windows bit'n'pieces. > > I have been trying to run it with the command 'wine > /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe' It all starts up OK but it fails when it needs > to access the word files. > > Also when starting it I get the following errors: > [graeme at barney ~]$ wine /home/graeme/ccw/ccw.exe > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone > information in > the registry for bias -600, std (d/m/y): 6/04/2008, dlt (d/m/y): > 5/10/2008 > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not > accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not > accessible. > fixme:hook:SetWindowsHookEx16 System-global hooks (-1) broken in Win16 > > How do I set the inaccessible directories please? > > > Thank you. > > -- > Kind regards, > > Graeme Nichols.<snip> -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/)
Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:> someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a > .wine folder. I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't > tell you for certain. do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything > wine related is there. What you need to do is put the floppy contents > in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install. Let me know if that > doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look.Hello Douglas, Charity, I have finally figured it out :-( I copied the windows files to ~/.wine/drive_c/ccw, set the C drive in winecfg to point to drive_c and lo and behold it now all works. Marvelous. Thanks to yourself and Charity for your help. It is very much appreciated. <snip> -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) -