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Why does gwibber have files in .wine/dosdevices?

Asked by Martin Gamache

Just out of curiosity : Why does gwibber have files in .wine/dosdevices? Is it dos/windows application?

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Jason Liquorish (jason-liquorish) said : 		#1

What distribution and version of Gwibber are you running. I have Ubuntu Jaunty with Gwibber 1.2.0 without wine installed and do not have this problem. .wine/ does not even exist in my home directory. Knowing what files exactly it has in there would also be useful.

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Martin Gamache (martin-gamache) said : 		#2

I'm using Jaunty 64 bits with Gwibber 0.8 (from the regular repositories).

I've just installed Jaunty on a different computer (replacing Hardy) and identified when the files are created : they are created when I installed Microsoft Visio 2003 through Wine.

Here is a screenshot of some files found that were created AFTER installing Visio :

http://www.internet.uqam.ca/web/t15900/

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Dmitriy Geels (dmig) said : 		#3

'z:' is symlink. See, what it is pointing at with: ls -ld ~/.wine/dosdevices/z: or in winecfg

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Best Dmitriy Geels (dmig) said : 		#4

'z:' is symlink. See, what it is pointing at with: ls -ld ~/.wine/dosdevices/z: or in winecfg

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Martin Gamache (martin-gamache) said : 		#5

Thanks Dmitriy

I checked, and yes, z: is a symlink to / .

I should have checked more thoroughly before asking this question...

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Martin Gamache (martin-gamache) said : 		#6

Thanks Dmitriy Geels, that solved my question.