ptopengui-0.7 bundle for wine

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Hi Bruno,
many thanks for Your hint. It worked very well. I will try out ptopengui
today.
I have problems to send to You, hopfully this mail reaches You.

Kai-Uwe

Am 01.04.03, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Bruno Postle:

> On Tue 01-Apr-2003 at 05:47:04PM +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> >
> > can You give me a link to initially start ptopengui as .exe ?  I
> > have not found any hint for SuSE, which runns for me, to enable
> > exe's calling directly.
>
> Basically (and I'm not a Wine expert at all), the Linux kernel needs
> to know that windows executable files can be run using Wine.
>
> On my redhat systems this is done by an init script that 'registers'
> it:
>
>     /etc/init.d/wine start
>
> All it does is this:
>
>     /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc &>/dev/null
>     echo ':windows:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register || :
>     echo ':windowsPE:M::PE::/usr/bin/wine:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register || :
>
> On a Debian system, you have to install an extra 'libwine-print'
> package to get this stuff working.
>
> So, I would look to see if there is a wine init-script you can run,
> or any extra wine packages that you are missing.
>
> Also, make sure that the .exe file is actually executable:
>
>    chmod 755 PTOpenGui.exe
>
> --
> Bruno
>