[cad-linux] Re: encouraging success, farther OT

BTW, everyone that runs wine has some sort of base line app that they use to 
see if they have REALLY hosed their wine installation.  for me its a game 
called wintrek.  others use notepad.


On Friday 19 July 2002 09:40, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>       I know that this is a bit off the topic of CAD, but I'm very new to this
> and I'm definitely not a coder.
>       My original goal is to get Pro/Desktop working with wine. I have the
> latest codewavers-wine RPM installed on my Elx test box and the
> prodexpress-en.exe install fails with a very large number of errors. Not
> knowing how to fix them I decided to try another application. I tried
> AstroArt, a astronomy image utility that does among other things maximum
> entropy deconvolution similar to the program developed for the original
> Hubble Space Telescope to fix images that were unclear due to the spherical
> aberrations of the original system. I ran the install on the Elx box and it
> too exited with a large string of errors, mostly but not only:
> fixme:commctrl:FlatSB_SetScrollProp stub I had also installed the
> application on a Win98 box, so I looked in the Windows/system directory for
> commctrl.dll and coppied that to my
> /.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System directory.
>       I re-ran the install and although the error list was at least very
> similar, install completed and the program appears to operate as well as it
> does on the Win98 box, with the exception of the scroll bars which the
> commctrl.dll controls. I have yet to play with that...
>       So, I guess the question is: Can I expect that adding the missing dll's
> from a windows installation to the fake.windows system dir would have the
> same results for other apps? Or, is this a fluke?

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