[ale] wine error, "cannot open AVI", HUH ?

Courtney Thomas cc.thomas at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 11 15:25:08 EST 2006


Thanks so much for your reply.

Yes, it's a self-extractor   MBs :-(   I'll try setting a path variable 
to it's location. There's only Setup.exe.

It's not in the database, of which I was unfamiliar. Thanks again.

Courtney




Fulton Green wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>>Being even more inept in MSwinders, what does
>>
>>	'cannot open AVI'
>>
>>mean, please ?
> 
> 
> AVI is Microsoft's legacy video format.
> 
> 
>>Also, even more importantly, how do I avoid this error and run the program ?
>>
>>I'm trying to run a Setup.exe for a science program, designLab.
> 
> 
> Setup.exe is probably a self-extractor, and I'd say that the extractor
> is having path issues.  Are there any files on the designLab CD and/or
> in the distribution that end in either .avi or .AVI?
> 
> Also, have you checked the WINE application compatibility database?
> 
> http://appdb.winehq.org/
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