What creates fake files?

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

I need to test a fix for a bug on a clean Wine
installation.

After removing my configuration directory, running
tools/wineinstall I noticed that new Windows
directories do not have fake files with 0 length I
used to see in my old directory (shell.dll,
shell32.dll, winsock.dll, wnsock32.dll, autoexec.bat,
config.sys). All these fake files have exactly the
same time, the same as some directories (e.g. Recent,
SendTo, which do not exist in the new directory).
Obviously, all these changes could not be made
manually by me.

Do you know what application created these
files/directories or I just dreamed all this up?

Andriy Palamarchuk

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[Philipp Wollermann]

> I need to test a fix for a bug on a clean Wine
> installation.
>
> After removing my configuration directory, running
> tools/wineinstall I noticed that new Windows
> directories do not have fake files with 0 length I
> used to see in my old directory (shell.dll,
> shell32.dll, winsock.dll, wnsock32.dll, autoexec.bat,
> config.sys). All these fake files have exactly the
> same time, the same as some directories (e.g. Recent,
> SendTo, which do not exist in the new directory).
> Obviously, all these changes could not be made
> manually by me.
>
> Do you know what application created these
> files/directories or I just dreamed all this up?
>
> Andriy Palamarchuk

You can create fake files with the command 'touch'.
So if you want to create shell32.dll you would use:
touch shell32.dll
This simply creates a zero byte file with the name given.

Philipp

[Andreas Mohr]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:02:49PM -0800, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
> I need to test a fix for a bug on a clean Wine
> installation.
>
> After removing my configuration directory, running
> tools/wineinstall I noticed that new Windows
> directories do not have fake files with 0 length I
> used to see in my old directory (shell.dll,
> shell32.dll, winsock.dll, wnsock32.dll, autoexec.bat,
> config.sys). All these fake files have exactly the
> same time, the same as some directories (e.g. Recent,
> SendTo, which do not exist in the new directory).
> Obviously, all these changes could not be made
> manually by me.
>
> Do you know what application created these
> files/directories or I just dreamed all this up?

winesetuptk does this.

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

--- Andreas Mohr  wrote:
> > Do you know what application created these
> > files/directories or I just dreamed all this up?
>
> winesetuptk does this.

Hmm, I think I never used this tool.
Complete mistery... :-)

Andriy Palamarchuk

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