[ale] WINE question.....

[Michael Hirsch]

On 8/30/05, Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at joimail.com> 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 ?


Heh. If I had known you were trying to run Google Earth I could have helped 
you earlier. Sort of. There are rumors of it working on the wine site, but 
when I tried it failed. So my advice is to wait some more until the bugs are 
worked out.

Michael

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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