Fix links, update docs, other minor fixes

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Tom Wickline
2004-03-24 15:43:10 +00:00
committed by Jeremy Newman
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@@ -16,9 +16,18 @@ running on Wine.<p>
<p><b>Q: What is Wine?</b></p> <p><b>Q: What is Wine?</b></p>
<blockquote> <blockquote>
<p><b>A:</b> Wine is an execution layer that allows Windows programs to be run <p><b>A:</b>Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require
on Linux Systems. More information can be found at the Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation
<a href="http://www.winehq.com/fom-meta/cache/3.html">Wine FAQ</a>.<p> consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use
native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development
toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader,
allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including
<a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a>,
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, and
<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>.</p>
<p>More information can be found at the
<a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index">Wine FAQ</a>.<p>
</blockquote> </blockquote>
<p><b>Q: What is the benefit Application Database?</b></p> <p><b>Q: What is the benefit Application Database?</b></p>

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@@ -5,23 +5,21 @@ for a certain program doesn't exist.
<ol> <ol>
<li> Make sure your Wine release is pretty recent. <li> Make sure your Wine release is recent.</li><p>
Current possibilities are:</li><p>
<ul> <ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com">CodeWeavers Wine</a> Preview <li><a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/download"> Official WineHQ builds</a>
simple, complete configuration</li> for Linux Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and FreeBSD, hosted by
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/winex">TransGaming WineX</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241">SourceForge.net</a>.</li>
Wine version with special DirectX support, use this one for games.</li> <li><a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/cvs">Official WineHQ Source</a> for information on how to
<li> Misc. Wine packages/versions downloadable via build and install wine via source read over the
<a href="http://www.winehq.com">WineHQ</a></li> <a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/howto"> Wine HowTo</a>.</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p> <p>
<li> Run <a href="http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/winecheck">winecheck</a> <li> You can run winecheck this handy tool is located in the /tools directory.
(chmod +x winecheck; ./winecheck) (chmod +x winecheck; ./winecheck)
to verify the most important aspects of Wine environment to verify the most important aspects of Wine environment configuration.</li><p>
configuration</li><p>
<li> Run your program</li><p> <li> Run your program</li><p>
@@ -30,23 +28,55 @@ Run Wine with --debugmsg +loaddll to find out which
DLLs are loaded as native or builtin ones. DLLs are loaded as native or builtin ones.
Then make sure appropriate native versions are in the Then make sure appropriate native versions are in the
c:\windows\system directory as configured in your wine c:\windows\system directory as configured in your wine
config file, and then use either --dll DLL1, DLL2,...=n or config file. There are five options you can choose from when setting
--dll DLL1,DLL2,...=b dll overrides, I will use commctrl here as a example.</li><p>
to use native or builtin setting for certain DLLs, respectively.</li><p>
<li> In case of persisting failure, check out <pre>
<a href="http://www.winehq.com/Trouble/">Wine Troubleshooting Guide</a> "commctrl" = "native, builtin"
and read all of the available documentation at "commctrl" = "builtin, native "
<a href="http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml">WineHQ Support</a></li><p> "commctrl" = "native"
"commctrl" = "builtin"
"commctrl" = ""
</pre>
<li> If that doesn't help, then ask people on
<a href="http://irc.openprojects.net">irc.openprojects.net</a> <li> In case of persisting failure, you may want to read over the
channel #WineHQ or on the <a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation">Wine Documentation</a>
<a href="http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users">wine-users</a> and you may also want to read the
mailing list. </li><p> <a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index">Wine FAQ</a>.</li><p>
<li> The many different way's of getting help.</li>
<ul>
<li> You can ask for help on the <a href="http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users">wine-users</a>
mailing list. </li>
<li>WineHQ has a newsgroup hosted by Usenet. You can read and post using a
newsgroup reader such as <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a>
or <a href="http://pan.rebelbase.com/">Pan</a>.</li><p>
<li><a href="news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine</a> or via the web at
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freenode.net">Freenode.net</a> hosts a chat room for
Wine. You can access the chat room using an IRC program such as
<a href="http://www.xchat.org/">X-Chat</a>. Use the settings listed below.</li><p>
<blockquote>
<b>Server:</b> irc.freenode.net<br>
<b>Port:</b> 6667<br>
<b>Channel:</b> #winehq<br>
</blockquote>
<li>If you use Mozilla or any other browser that supports IRC urls, you can
join the chat by clicking on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#winehq">irc://irc.freenode.net/#winehq</a>.</li><p>
</ul>
<li> If you have more questions, please contact us <li> If you have more questions, please contact us
at <a href="mailto:appdb@codeweavers.com">appdb@codeweavers.com</a>.</li><p> at <a href="mailto:appdb@codeweavers.com">appdb@codeweavers.com</a>.</li></p>
</ol> </ol>

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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ you would MOST like to see running in Wine.
would not make much sense.</li><p> would not make much sense.</li><p>
<li>When voting for an application, you are voting for <b>ALL</b> its various versions. There is <li>When voting for an application, you are voting for <b>ALL</b> its various versions. There is
a separate system in place for ranking versions.</Li><p> a separate system in place for ranking versions.</li><p>
<li>You can clear your vote at anytime. Simply browse to any App in the database, select the app <li>You can clear your vote at anytime. Simply browse to any App in the database, select the app
in your vote list you want to clear, and click the Clear button.</li><p> in your vote list you want to clear, and click the Clear button.</li><p>