Updates and error message improvements.

DEVELOPERS-HINTS

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Other DLLs:
 		msnet/
 		msvcrt/		- C runtime library
 		msvideo/	- 16 bit video manager
-		ole32/		- 32 bit OLE 2.0 librairies
+		ole32/		- 32 bit OLE 2.0 libraries
 		oleaut32/	- 32 bit OLE 2.0 automation
 		olecli/		- 16 bit OLE client
 		oledlg/		- OLE 2.0 user interface support
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Debug channels
 If you need to create a new debug channel, just add the
 DECLARE_DEBUG_CHANNEL to your .c file(s) and rerun
 tools/make_debug. When sending out your patch, you don't need to
-provide nor ./configure nor the ./include/debugdefs.h diffs. Just
+provide neither ./configure nor the ./include/debugdefs.h diffs. Just
 indicate that those files need to be regenerated.
 
 Resources

README

@@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the
 documentation directory.
 
 Wine requires a configuration file named named "config" in your
-~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the man
-page. The file documentation/samples/config contains an example
-configuration file which has to be adapted and copied to the location
-mentioned above.
+~/.wine directory. The format of this file is explained in the config file
+man page (documentation/wine.conf.man).
+The file documentation/samples/config contains an example configuration file
+which has to be adapted and copied to the location mentioned above.
 
 See http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for further configuration hints.
 
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@ You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
 to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
 of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
 if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
-directories sometimes.
+directories sometimes. Not even other MS apps such as e.g. Messenger are safe,
+as they launch Explorer somehow. This particular corruption (!$!$!$!$.pfr)
+can be fixed with http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/download/decorrupt_explorer
 
 
 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION

documentation/architecture.sgml

@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@
       </sect2>
 
       <sect2>
-        <title>The Wineserver</title>
+        <title>The Wine server</title>
         <para>
-          The Wineserver is among the most confusing concepts in Wine.
+          The Wine server is among the most confusing concepts in Wine.
           What is its function in Wine? Well, to be brief, it provides
           Inter-Process Communication (IPC), synchronization, and
           process/thread management. When the wineserver launches, it
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
       <sect2>
         <title>The Service Thread</title>
         <para>
-          The Wineserver cannot do everything that needs to be done
+          The Wine server cannot do everything that needs to be done
           behind the application's back, considering that it's not
           threaded (so cannot do anything that would block or take any
           significant amount of time), nor does it share the address

documentation/configuring.sgml

@@ -94,11 +94,6 @@
                 <entry>Overides defaults for DLL loading</entry>
               </row>
               <row>
-                <entry>[options]</entry>
-                <entry>no</entry>
-                <entry>No one seems to know</entry>
-              </row>
-              <row>
                 <entry>[fonts]</entry>
                 <entry>yes</entry>
                 <entry>Font appearance and recognition</entry>
@@ -292,9 +287,9 @@ And here is a setup for Drive X, a generic floppy drive:
         <sect3>
           <title>The [wine] Section </title>
           <para>
-            The [wine] section of the configuration file contains
-            information wine uses for directories. When specifying the
-            directories for the settings, make them as they would
+            The [wine] section of the configuration file contains all kinds
+            of general settings for Wine. When specifying the directories
+            for the directory related settings, make them as they would
             appear in wine. If your drive <medialabel>C</medialabel>
             has a path of <filename>/dos</filename>, and your
             <filename>windows</filename> directory is located in
@@ -337,20 +332,47 @@ And here is a setup for Drive X, a generic floppy drive:
             <filename>"c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system"</filename>).
           </para>
           <para>
-            <programlisting>"SymbolTableFile" = "wine.sym"</programlisting>
-            Sets up the symbol table file for the wine debugger. You
-            probably don't need to fiddle with this. May be useful if
-            your wine is stripped.
+            <programlisting>"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv|ttydrv"</programlisting>
+	    Sets the graphics driver to use for Wine output.
+	    x11drv is for X11 output, ttydrv is for text console output.
+	    WARNING: if you use ttydrv here, then you won't be able to run
+	    any Windows GUI programs. Thus this option is mainly interesting
+	    for e.g. embedded use of Wine in web server scripts.
 	  </para>
 	  <para>
-            <programlisting>"printer" = "off|on"</programlisting> Tells wine
-            whether to allow printer drivers and printing to work.
+            <programlisting>"Printer" = "off|on"</programlisting> Tells wine
+            whether to allow printing via printer drivers to work.
+	    This option isn't needed for our builtin psdrv printer driver
+	    at all.
             Using these things are pretty alpha, so you might want to
             watch out. Some people might find it useful, however. If
-            you're not planning on working on printing, don't even add
-            this to your <filename>~/.wine/config</filename> (It probably
-            isn't already in it). Check out the [spooler] and
-            [parallelports] sections too.
+            you're not planning on working on printing via windows printer
+	    drivers, don't even add this to your wine config file
+	    (It probably isn't already in it).
+	    Check out the [spooler] and [parallelports] sections too.
+          </para>
+	  <para>
+	    <programlisting>"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"</programlisting>
+	    This setting specifies the shell linker script to use for setting
+	    up Windows icons in e.g. KDE or Gnome that are given by programs
+	    making use of appropriate shell32.dll functionality to create
+	    icons on the desktop/start menu during installation.
+	  </para>
+	  <para>
+	    <programlisting>"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"</programlisting>
+	    Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by
+	    default, as doing so may crash some programs that do
+	    recursive lookups of whole subdirectory trees
+	    whenever a directory symlink points back to itself or one of its
+	    parent directories.
+	    That's why we disallowed the use of directory symlinks
+	    and added this setting to reenable ("1") this functionality.
+	  </para>
+          <para>
+            <programlisting>"SymbolTableFile" = "wine.sym"</programlisting>
+            Sets up the symbol table file for the wine debugger. You
+            probably don't need to fiddle with this. May be useful if
+            your wine is stripped.
           </para>
         </sect3>
 
@@ -475,10 +497,10 @@ And here is a setup for Drive X, a generic floppy drive:
             <programlisting>"DefaultLoadOrder" =" native, so, builtin"</programlisting>
           </para>
           <para>
-            This setting is a comma-delimited list of which order to
-            attempt loading DLL's. If the first option fails, it will
-            try the second, and so on. The order specified above is
-            probably the best in most conditions.
+            This setting is a comma-delimited list of the order in
+            which to attempt loading DLLs. If the first option fails,
+            it will try the second, and so on. The order specified
+            above is probably the best in most conditions.
           </para>
         </sect3>
 
@@ -577,19 +599,6 @@ And here is a setup for Drive X, a generic floppy drive:
         </sect3>
 
         <sect3>
-          <title>The [options] Section</title>
-          <para>
-            No one seems to know what this section is...
-          </para>
-          <para>
-            <programlisting>
-"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
-            </programlisting>
-            System colors to allocate? Just leave it at 100.
-          </para>
-        </sect3>
-
-        <sect3>
           <title>The [fonts] Section</title>
           <para>
             This section sets up wine's font handling.
@@ -1274,7 +1283,7 @@ OPTIONAL:
               <row>
                 <entry>ISO9660</entry>
                 <entry>cdrom</entry>
-                <entry>reads labels only</entry>
+                <entry>reads labels and serial numbers (not mixed-mode CDs yet !)</entry>
               </row>
             </tbody>
           </tgroup>

documentation/installation-und-konfiguration.german

@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ die folgenden Programme und Dateien installiert sein:
    erstellen, falls dies noch nicht geschehen ist. Danach können die
    erforderlichen Daten mit dem folgenden Befehl importiert werden:
    
-   ./regapi setValue ../../winedefault.reg
+   ./regapi setValue < ../../winedefault.reg
    
 8 Aufruf von WINE und Kommandozeilenoptionen
 

documentation/wine.conf.man.in

 .\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH WINE.CONF 5 "August 5, 2001" "Version 20010731" "Wine Configuration File"
+.TH WINE.CONF 5 "September 1, 2001" "Version 20010824" "Wine Configuration File"
 .SH NAME
 wine.conf \- Wine configuration file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ are listed below.
 .PP
 .B [Drive X]
 .br
-This section is used to specify the root directory and type of each
+This section is used to specify the root directory and type of each emulated
 .B DOS
 drive, since most Windows applications require a DOS/MS-Windows based 
-disk drive & directory scheme. There is one such section for every
-drive you want to configure.
+disk drive & directory scheme, which is either provided by a real
+DOS partition mounted somewhere or by some carefully crafted directory layout
+on a Unix file system ("no-windows fake installation").
+There is one such section for every drive you want to configure.
 .PP
 .I format: """Path""=""<rootdirectory>"""
 .br
@@ -44,11 +46,11 @@ default: none
 If you mounted your dos partition as 
 .I /dos
 and installed Microsoft Windows in 
-C:\\WINDOWS then you should specify 
+C:\\WINDOWS (thus it shows up as /dos/WINDOWS), then you should specify 
 .I """Path""=""/dos"""
 in the
 .I [Drive C]
-section.
+section in order to configure /dos as the drive root of drive C:.
 .PP
 .I format: """Type""=""<type>"""
 .br
@@ -82,12 +84,12 @@ Supported types are "msdos" (or "fat"), "win95" (or "vfat"), "unix".
 .br
 Recommended:
 .br
-  "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
+  "win95" for ext2fs, ReiserFS, ..., VFAT and FAT32
 .br
-  "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly)
+  "msdos" for FAT16 file systems (ugly, 8.3 naming)
 .br
 You definitely do not want to use "unix" unless you intend to port
-programs using Winelib.  Always try to avoid using FAT16. Use the
+programs using Winelib.  Always try to avoid using a FAT16 FS. Use the
 VFAT/FAT32 OS file system driver instead.
 .PP
 .I format: """FailReadOnly""=""<boolean>"""
@@ -104,13 +106,16 @@ default: "C:\\\\WINDOWS"
 .br
 Used to specify a different Windows directory; make sure to double the
 backslashes.
+So if you previously configured drive C: to be at /dos, this now means that
+the windows directory should be at /dos/WINDOWS.
 .PP
 .I format: """system""=""<directory>"""
 .br
-default: "C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\SYSTEM"
+default: "C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\System"
 .br
 Used to specify a different system directory; make sure to double the
 backslashes.
+Again, given a drive C: at /dos, this would be at /dos/WINDOWS/System.
 .PP
 .I format: """temp""=""<directory>"""
 .br
@@ -133,14 +138,14 @@ a native NT or a native win95 directory with per-user settings.
 default: "C:\\\\WINDOWS;C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\SYSTEM"
 .br
 Used to specify the path which will be used to find executables and
-dlls. Make sure to double all the backslashes.
+dlls. Make sure to double the backslashes.
 .PP
 .B [DllOverrides]
 .br
 .I format: """modulename""=""native,so,builtin"""
 .br
 .I modulename
-can be any valid module name, without extension. The specified value
+can be any valid DLL module name, without extension. The specified value
 is a comma separated list of module-types to try to load in that
 specific order. Case is not important and only the first letter of
 each type is enough to identify the type n[ative], s[o],
@@ -171,6 +176,7 @@ use native versions for these libraries.
 Always make sure that you have some kind of strategy in mind when you start
 fiddling with the current defaults and needless to say that you must know
 what you are doing.
+--debugmsg +loaddll might come in handy for experimenting with that stuff.
 .PP
 .B [serialports]
 .br

files/dos_fs.c

@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ static int DOSFS_GetPathDrive( const char **name )
     {
         if ((drive = DRIVE_FindDriveRoot( name )) == -1)
         {
-            MESSAGE("Warning: %s not accessible from a DOS drive\n", *name );
+            MESSAGE("Warning: %s not accessible from a configured DOS drive\n", *name );
             /* Assume it really was a DOS name */
             drive = DRIVE_GetCurrentDrive();            
         }

libtest/volinfo.c

 /*
- * This test program was copied from documentation/cdrom-label
+ * This test program was copied from the former file documentation/cdrom-label
  */
 #include <windows.h>
 #include <stdio.h>

tools/winecheck

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ my $indent = 0;
 
 my ($level, $reason, $advice);
 
-my $advice_chmod = "Use chmod as root to fix it (\"man chmod\")";
+my $advice_chmod = "If your user account is supposed to be able to access
+it properly, use chmod as root to fix it (\"man chmod\")";
 my $advice_fs = "The Filesystem option indicates the filesystem behaviour Wine is supposed to *emulate*, not the filesystem which is there";
 
 my $dev_read = 1;

winedefault.reg

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 "DragFullWindows"="0"
 
 #
-# Overwrite default load address of BDE 
-# (Borland database engine)
+# Override default load address of BDE (Borland database engine),
+# since it's not available on Linux
 #
 
 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Borland\Database Engine\Settings\SYSTEM\INIT]