On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Loren Nozot wrote: > I am trying to execute a program under rh 7.2 with an application switch > '/'. Though the documentation states this is possible I have been > unable to execute with success. > > I have tried many escape variations for the slash but that has not > worked either. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks! > Loren > / isn't special to the shell, so protecting it from wine with -- before should be enough -- unless it has also shell metacharacters after the /. /* for instance would expand to a list of all the top level directories in the root filesystem, FI, probably not what the app wants to see. You can see what the shell will do with a command line with "echo". If it does something you don't want it to do, quote it: wine blah.exe -- '/*' Lawson ---oof--- ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
