On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:38:13AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> System:  RedHat 8.0, wine version 20020605.
> Yes, I know it's old version.  But the application in question used to 
> run under MS-DOS in an old PC, which I want to retire now.
> I hope that changes made to wine affected only its Windows part, and 
> that its console was stable.
> 

Try using dosemu (or xdosemu). Should be easier to setup and stabler
with dos programs.

> I configured wine to access hard disk subdirectories for A:,B: and C: 
> emulated disk drives.
> 
> When I execute 'wine wcmd', I get a window with DOS prompt.
> I can execute internal commands such as dir or type.
> But when I try to execute a program, the wine gets stuck, and aborts 
> when I hit CTRL-C.
> 
> I also see the following message:
> Warning: //usr/bin/wine not accessible from a configured DOS drive
> 
> I found no clue what to check or change in my configuration to solve the 
> above problems, even though I RTFMed the following:
>  - man wine
>  - man wine.conf (finds it in section 5)
>  - /usr/share/doc/wine-20020605/wine-doc/set1.html, viewed by means of a
>    browser.
> 
> Note:  upgrading the above system to a newer Linux version is not an 
> option.  However, I have another PC with Fedora Core 1.  I may give it a 
> try.
> 
> By the way, the application, which I need to run, needs to accept and 
> display Hebrew characters in the console (something which worked out of 
> the box in MS-Windows 3.11 console, but not in later versions of 
> MS-Windows).  How can I get wine to do this (is 'code page' the correct 
> keyword here)?
>                                         Thanks,
>                                              --- Omer
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