[ale] WINE question.....

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

The "fixme" suggests that the Wine developers know about this as a 
problem but either have not gotten around to fixing it or are not able 
to fix it because the Win32 app uses the API in an undocumented way.  
This is just part and parcel of dealing with Wine; if something you want 
to do doesn't work, you can either hassle, pay, or become a Wine 
developer or you're S.O.L.

The newer, more complex, or more Microsoft-origined a Win32 app is, the 
less likely it is to run under Wine.  You can always see if Cedega 
(Wine-for-pay) works any better.

Jeff

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>Michael,
>
>Your were right. Notepad.exe runs w/o a hitch.
>
>>From my error msgs [see below], can you tell what's wrong with
>GoogleEarth.exe ?
>
>Courtney
>
>On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:05, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>  
>
>>Can you run anything in wine?  If you have windows, try running
>>notepad, or solitaire--I'm pretty sure they will run.  Or just grabe
>>some shareware and try it.  You may have a program-specific problem
>>rather than a general wine problem.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>On 8/30/05, Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at joimail.com> wrote:
>>        Michael,
>>        
>>        Thank you for the suggestion but I still get the below
>>        described error
>>        messages.
>>        
>>        Courtney
>>        
>>        
>>        On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:17, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>        > On 8/27/05, Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at joimail.com> wrote:
>>        >         Thank you Jeff, but when I...
>>        >
>>        >         wine program.exe
>>        >
>>        >         I get the same error msgs, i.e.
>>        >
>>        >                 fixme:ntdll:NTQueryVolumeInformationFile
>>        device info
>>        >         not properly
>>        >         supported on this platform
>>        >                 fixme:file:get_default_drive_device auto
>>        detection of
>>        >         DOS devices not
>>        >         supported on this platform
>>        >
>>        > I seem to recall running "wine
>>        /full/unix/path/to/the/executable" 
>>        > when I  used wine.  See if that works.
>>        >
>>        > Michael
>>        >
>>        >
>>        >
>>        >
>>        >
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