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From: Moritz Hardt <root@morix.de>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: wine error messages
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Wine is still alpha-version. so it comes up with a lot of bugs and is too
weak to emulate bigger software.

and i strongly recommecnd you not to try it, since wine crashes often and
doesn't even clean up after it is terminated.


Moritz 
- Keep Lynx Alive!

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Moritz Hardt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > No, it doesn't really look serios, since wine produces lots of that error
> > messages.
> > 
> > but i don't understand why you deleted the lines for your floppy drive!
> 
> Thanks for your reply! Because wine complains that it can not get stat of
> it. Now I guess if I need to run something off a DOS floppy, I will need
> it.  By the way, do you have any idea what kind of serious applications
> can run under wine.  I only run solitare now. I guess that I can not run
> MS office (why?).
> 
> -Zhihui 
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I tried wine with some success, but it complains when it starts:
> > > 
> > > Invalid path 'c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator' for profile directory
> > > can't load win95 user-registry c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator\user.dat
> > > 
> > > Is this serious? I have deleted the following lines from wine.conf:
> > > 
> > > [Drive A]
> > > Path=/mnt/fd0
> > > Type=floppy
> > > Label=Floppy
> > > Serial=87654321
> > > Device=/dev/fd0
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help.  I am using 4.1-Release.
> > > 
> > > -Zhihui
> 



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