[Bug 1694] New: no configuration file

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694

Summary: no configuration file
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-files
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

i have read the documentation, the readme, and the FAQs on the website and i am
still getting all sorts of problems that none of these pages even touch upon.
here's the latest...

the documentation tells me to set up several things in the configuration by
entering ~/.wine/config

I do this and it says bash: home/Brian/wine/config: Permission Denied

yes I am obviously new to Linux and this is very frustrating to you I know but I
have no other source of help for this problem. There are several Windows
programs that I MUST have and if I can't get this to work properly I have to
uninstall Linux and go back to that garbage OS: Windows XP. Any help appreciated.