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wine
Name: tragicmayb Date: April 17, 2001 at 09:31:06 Pacific
Comment:
i'm new to linux and am about to setup wine. how does this thing work? i have 3 partitions, one of which is linux. will wine allow me to access win progs off the other partitions, or will i have to reinstall them? by the way, i love linux so far!!!!!
Name: arturo Date: April 17, 2001 at 11:48:09 Pacific
Reply:
I recently install wine. It's too slow to run windows applications... When you instal it, wine recognices each partition in mtab as a drive, like DOS. I mean "c:" will be "/dev/hda1" or "d:" will be /dev/cdrom or "e:" will be "/dev/hda5". You can access the program typing from shell something like this: "wine /mnt/windows/windows/progman.exe" and it will start the old program manager of win3.11 or you can type: "wine e:\windows\programs\word6.exe" and it will start word. Note the "e:" where e: is the partition of linux that access VFAT as I explain you.
You can try first: "wine /mnt/windows/windows/fileman.exe" you see how works the logical drives in wine. "Explorer.exe" does not run (yet, or in my mchine).
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