From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 13: 4:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D567437B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.96.138]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000905200425.DINI312.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:04:25 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05674; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:04:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:04:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: Moritz Hardt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wine error messages Message-ID: <20000905210418.I254@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:43:46PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:43:46PM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > 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?). > > > > > > Wanna bet? http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/word97_screen_shot.jpg > > I just tried the following: > > # wine WINWORD.EXE > > It pops up a windows, saying "This application must be installed to > run. Please run Setup from the location where you originally installed the > applcation". > Well, without knowing your full setup, I can't guarantee to have the exact answer, but first, try cd(1)'ing to the directory where WINWORD.EXE lives, then running ``wine WINWORD.EXE'' and see if that works. I was running it under Win95 and found things worked better if I used ``--winver win95'' as an argument to wine. I don't know if there is a "win98" argument to ``--winver'', if not you could try "in95". > And wine says: > > fixme: system: SystemParametersInfoA SPI_GETHIGHCONTRAST not fully > inplemented. > > If it is not too complicated, could you please tell me how to set it up? I > want to impress my friend with this. > > -Zhihui > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message