I have yet to get a good answer from the WINE forums, so I'm submitting it here. I'm trying to install some programming software for my ham radio; this software is considered "unsupported" by Crossover, but it's not anything fancy.
I tried installing it under WINE 1.0, 1.1.3, and 1.1.16, but every time the install hangs with, "Please insert disk containing "data3.cab"--except there isn't any file by that name on the disk (I even grepped for it). I then tried Crossover Linux and it installed and ran without a hitch (just needed to add the link so I could access the serial dongle). Finally, a couple of suggestions and some searching later, I found a program called "unshield", which broke it down without any problems, though I have no idea how to tell WINE to install the mess of directories left by unshield.
At first, I thought this might be DRM, but unshield working proves it isn't (I think). Then I noticed something: in a directory that looks like it has a corrupted name lies the executable along with 2 files that appear to provide localization, one saying "eng" and the other "jap". This program is made by a Japanese company, so I'm thinking that the "corrupted" directory name may actually be Japanese in Unicode or some other system, though I have no idea how to check.
So that brings me to the question I haven't had answered yet: if this is indeed what it is, could Crossover have some foreign-language-handling ability that somehow never got integrated back into WINE?
I have no problem paying for Crossover since the work goes back into FOSS WINE so I consider it almost a sort of "donation", along with the fact I'm a sometimes-gamer (mainly VALVe/Steam stuff), but I really would like to nail this problem down so I can make a bug report or whatever.
Thanks, Mike
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