Anyway, if it makes more sense for me to just report problems that I have with uCon when running it on wine, that's fine with me. Bottom line is I will do whatever is most appropriate/helpful/efficient to get it running and that includes doing some wine code if necessary.
I also have no problem with changing things in uCon to make it work better with wine. Whichever works best. I'm open for suggestions.
Step 1 is: file a bug for the worst problem, and let's see what we can do about it!
My problem there is that I'm stuck with RH9 at the moment, and it appears that the latest Wine RPM for RH9 is 0.9.2. I see a few bugs already in bugzilla related to serial com port issues; not quite the same problem as I am seeing. So I can file a bug report, but I would expect that the first (legitimate) response will be that I need to run with the latest version. Is there any newer Wine RPM for RH9? Or do I need to get a new machine? :-( Ed