>Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:06:45 -0800 (PST) >From: Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte@yahoo.com> >Subject: Shell script for launching wineapps from a unix file manager >To: Wine Users <wine-users@winehq.com> > >All, > >Did a little research and found this little trick that >works well. > >First create this batch file and modify to your >system. > >winword >------------------------------------ >FNAME=`wine -- winepath -l "$1"` >wine -- "/wine/c/Program Files/Microsoft >Office/Office/WINWORD.exe" "$FNAME" >------------------------------------ > >chmod a+x winword and put it some where in the path >then associate any .doc to be opened with 'winword' >and it works great. I have also used this method with >excel and quicktime files. > >How it works: >Line 1: >FNAME=`wine -- winepath -l "$1" > >What it does >takes a unix path like /home/uid/Docuements/file.doc >and set the variable FNAME to f:\Documents\file.doc > >Line 2: >wine -- "/wine/c/Program Files/Microsoft >Office/Office/WINWORD.exe" "$FNAME" > >Loads winword via wine with the wine relative path to >the file. > >example: >winword /home/uid/Documents/file.doc > >creates > >wine -- /wine/c/Program Files/Microsoft >Office/Office/WINWORD.exe F:\Documents\file.doc > >Which is what word needs to load the selected file. > >Hope you find this useful. > >Kevin if you would package the scripts in tar.gz ( and perhaps add an install.sh ) it would be nice to have them on our new wine apps site it might make the newby live a lot easier. website maintainer response please... Mark Hannessen _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
