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> On 10/4/07, Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>> Indeed, this is a FoxPro program. I had tried changing the path; and
>> tested it by starting program without using full path to EXE - although
>> the program does startup this way; it still fails at the same point.
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>> I also tried QEMU; but was still researching options before bringing
>> speed question here. I've read that it can be a bit slow; but I'm
>> wondering HOW slow? I use the FoxPro program to convert a database from
>> one format to another. Native Win98 on P3-600 the process takes 1:20
>> (min:sec). On a 2GHz Core2Duo, QEMU takes 6:00 minutes. Is this
>> expected speed? On QEMU/BSD forum, it was suggested I compile from
>> source, so I used ports instead of package, but there was no change to
>> speed of this process. Files are currently inside a virtual disk. Is
>> that fastest for disk i/o? Am I likely to speed it up if I have files
>> on host and access them via samba? Is there another way to access host
>> files from Win98 guest?
>>
>> Frank
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>> Richard Toohey wrote:
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>>> I do not know much about wine, but the issue interested me ... I've
>>> built from ports and
>>> I am having a look.
>>>
>>> From the manual page, re. the wine configuration file, it has this:
>>>
>>> format: path = <directories separated by semi-colons>
>>> default: C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
>>> Used to specify the path which will be used to find exe-
>>> cutables and .DLL's.
>>>
>>> Can you add C:\XXXX and/or C:\XXXX\LIBS to that list and see if it helps?
>>>
>>> A FLL looks like a FoxPro dynamic link library, so it should count as a
>>> DLL.
>>>
>>> Back to RTFMing ...
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>>> On 3/10/2007, at 8:27 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
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>>>>> I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple
>>>>> programs
>>>>> like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this
>>>>> program cannot find it's own files unless the current working
>>>>> directory is
>>>>> set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent
>>>>> wine versions support 'bat' files which would solve this; but this
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> seem to work in this version.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I try:
>>>>> wine c:/XXXX/program.exe
>>>>> the software complains that it cannot open LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL
>>>>>
>>>>> This file is found at C:\XXXX\LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to run something like this on wine 990225?:
>>>>> cd XXXX
>>>>> program.exe
>>>>>
>>>>> If this is not workable on 990225; do current wine versions work on
>>>>> OpenBSD?
>>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if there is a way to 'cd' on OpenBSD's version of Wine. As
>>>> to porting: more recent Wines do weird things with threads, if I
>>>> understand the issue correctly. In short, don't expect an update soon.
>>>>
>>>> Qemu works fine, if you don't need to run a particularly demanding
>>>> program.
>>>>
>>>> Joachim
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