[plug] wine, netscape

[alan howard]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, BillK wrote:
> Lock file: Are you closing netscape or crashing it? - will leave lock
> file if not shut down cleanly
> 
> Wine:  You get that message if you dont give it the exe to run (or
> cannot find it) - its not a standalone app, but a command line wrapper.
> i.e., "wine /fullpath/solitare.exe" - seems to work better if full path
> given as sometimes cannot find mutiple files for an app.

yes I am shutting down netscape correctly- its not after a crash or lock up..
and yes again with wine. I tried both the linux and dos conventions for the
path and executable and neither worked., ( i tried several programs , including
ones that are known to work).

regards
alan howard

> alan howard wrote:
> > 
> > At the risk of sounding thick I have a couple of questions which I hope someone
> > will answer.
> > 1. I can't get wine to work. it complains that it can't find the executable. I
> > can mount he windows partition and copy files between linux and win without
> > problems. Does any one know what I'm doing wrong.
> > 2. I keep getting a lock file in my  home ./netscape directory. can anyone tell
> > me whats generating this and how to stop it.
> > 
> > thank you
> > alan howard