"Matthew" == Matthew Davison <mjd77(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Matthew> The installer fo Office XP i broken in recent CVS. IT returns Matthew> an error stating that a file does not exist, when the file in Matthew> question blatantly does exist. After further investigation, it Matthew> appears that the installer is trying to open "osp.msi " (note Matthew> the trailing space) MSDN states that such trailing spaces are Matthew> not supported, and it appears that windows simply removes such Matthew> spaces when added to a filename. This has been confirmed by Matthew> making a copy of the file with a trailing space in linux and Matthew> then the installer finds it correctly. I am assuming this has Matthew> something to do with the recent changes to the filesystem code, Matthew> and am unsure how to fix this myself. One first step could be to write a test case for the test suite, that shows the error on wine and works on winXX. Mark it as todo_wine and contribute to wine-patches. Hopefully someone cares, or you may even find yourself a patch that gets accepted. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------