Joost Kremers wrote:

> Keith wrote:
>> keith@localhost:/Win/Program Files$ wine spider.exe
>> wine: cannot open (null)
> [...]
>> Anybody have a hint?
>>
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?&q=wine%20cannot%20open%20(null)>
>
> <http://www.winehq.org/site/forums>
>

I run a version of wine that I have compiled from source and I do not have
noticed such problems. Be aware that there are problems with many
precompiled packages (I have not test the linuxpackages though).

Where are your fake C: drive? To work well; you should have a .wine in your
home directory and have a drive somewhere in it. Although wine itself can
be installed system wide; such a thing is not possible with the windows
apps installed via wine. Each user must have a complete different C: drive
with their own config (more precisely every user must have all permissions
on the C: drive they use). The reason is that wine emulate win98; where
every user has such permission. I have seen some distro shipping wine
trying to do otherwise but it is always broken in some way.

Hope that this help,

--
Olive