re: acad 2004 license file bug

[Dan Kegel]

Jaap wrote:
> The autocad installer indicated that I needed internet explorer 6.0,
> so I installed that using winetools.

Don't use winetools, please.  As you noticed, it does bad things to
your ~/.wine.
Or, if you do use it, please report problems to the winetools
developer, not here.
> (can wine fake internet explorer,
> so i don't need to install the real thing?)

Yes.  Here's what I do:

# Fake IE per workaround in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3453
wineserver -k
cat >> $HOME/.wine/system.reg <<"_EOF_"

[Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
"Version"="6.0.2900.2180"
_EOF_

- Dan