Getting at the "default Windows short date"
Andriy Palamarchuk
apa3a at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 12 12:35:45 CDT 2002
--- Simon Taylor <simon at unisolve.com.au> wrote:
> I've had some great success with wine recently, but
> am a little unsure about
> the best way to attack this problem.
>
> I want to run an accounting program called Cash Flow
> Manager under wine.
> (As it happens, this program is our last dependency
> on Windows apps in our
> office, everything else is OpenOfifce.org and RH
> Linux).
>
> When I run the application:
>
> wine /c/Program\
> Files/CashflowGST/CASHFLOWGST.exe
>
> I get a popup window with:
>
> Cashflow Manager requires the default Windows
> short date
> format for your selected language.
> Your currently selected short date format does
> not match the
> Windows default. You will need to
> select the default Windows Short Date format
> before
> proceeding.
>
> On the Windows 2000 machine, the so called short
> date in
> "Settings/Control Panel/Regional Options/Date", is:
>
> d/MM/yyyy
>
> and I suspect that I need to make this same entry in
> my wine environment,
> (perhaps in system.reg?), but where do I start?
This is described here:
http://wine.codeweavers.com/fom-meta/cache/693.html
Let us know if this does not work or you have other
problems.
Good luck in getting rid of Windows ;-)
Andriy
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