On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 16:41 -0600, winepunk wrote: > I meant to say that line works. Why should Wine be finicky? > Its the Windows app thats finicky, not Wine. Many Windows apps are written to assume that they'll be started in the directory that contains things they need to run, such as app-specific DLLs, .ini files etc. In *nix terminology this is called the current working directory. *nix, i.e. Linux and OS/X, programs, on the othyer hand, are written on the assumption that the data files the program will use are in the current working directory and the program itself will be somewhere else in the search path (defined in by $PATH). Wine, being a *nix program, naturally uses the conventions of its host OS. As a result, running wine path/to/app/dir/app.exe will leave the current working directory set to where you issued the command from ($HOME if you just logged in) and some Windows apps may work, but most will complain that they can't find stuff that's in their installation directory. OTOH running cd path/to/app/dir; wine app.exe will first change directory to path/to/app/dir, make it the current working directory and then run app.exe in that directory. Since that's effectively what Windows always does, it will work with all Windows apps. Martin
