Re: wine and fonts

["Sergio E. Schvezov" <sschvezov@ubp.edu.ar>]

* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:08:07PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov (sschvezov@ubp.edu.ar) wrote:
> > Hi there, I'm trying to emulate dotComic (from www.marvel.com) and I'm
> > having font problems, they all appear as those funny faces and
> > diamonds and stuff. I'm running an updated sid, and i don't have
> > windows installed.
> > While emulating this wine drops a lot of similar messages to these:
/*
</cut> 
*/
> > 
> > If any one can point me to someplace to solve this, I'd be very
> > grateful
> 
> You may want to install a set of MSFT fonts on the box.  WINE may also
> work better if you've got an installation of legacy MS Windows for it to
> leach off of.
> 
I have already got those fonts installed. 
Q: is there any way to install windows without actually going through 
it's process of installation? 
Or, does anyone know if i can run wine with windows files just copied 
to the wine fake_windows dir ( I'm not in the mood for a windows install, 
that's all ;) )

Thanks for the feedback!