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Update the generic help page, by removing references to the wine config file

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and adding some new tips. Remove references to winecheck, this was removed from wine some years ago and
remove specific 'where to get help' documentation and instead forward users to the Winehq 'getting help'
page so there is one location for this information.
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Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes
2006-12-02 17:28:57 +00:00
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@@ -17,26 +17,24 @@ for a certain program doesn't exist.
</ul>
<p>
<li> You can run winecheck this handy tool is located in the /tools directory.
(chmod +x winecheck; ./winecheck)
to verify the most important aspects of Wine environment configuration.</li><p>
<li> Run your program</li><p>
<li> If it gives an error about missing files, or does not start at all, try running it from the directory where it was installed.</li><p>
<li> Many newer games contain copy protection, which is often not supported in Wine. Cracks are available from sites such as <a href="http://www.megagames.com/trainers.html" target="_blank">MegaGames</a>.</li><p>
<li> In case of failure, try different builtin, native DLL settings:
Run Wine with --debugmsg +loaddll to find out which
DLLs are loaded as native or builtin.
Then make sure appropriate native versions are in the
c:\windows\system directory as configured in your Wine
config file. There are five options you can choose from when setting
dll overrides, I will use commctrl here as an example.</li><p>
c:\windows\system32 directory as configured in Winecfg&#8217;s DLL overrides tab. There are four options you can choose from when setting
dll overrides.</li><p>
<pre>
"commctrl" = "native, builtin"
"commctrl" = "builtin, native "
"commctrl" = "native"
"commctrl" = "builtin"
"commctrl" = ""
(native, builtin)
(builtin, native)
(native)
(builtin)
</pre>
@@ -45,33 +43,7 @@ dll overrides, I will use commctrl here as an example.</li><p>
and you may also want to read the
<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.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users">wine-users</a>
mailing list. </li>
<li>WineHQ has a newsgroup hosted by <a href="news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine">Usenet</a>. 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>. 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/">Xchat</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> The Wine <a href="http://winehq.org/site/getting_help">'Getting Help'</a> page shows the current methods of getting help with Wine.</li><p>
<li> If you have more questions, please contact us
at <a href="mailto:appdb@winehq.org">appdb@winehq.org</a>.</li></p>