Hi Hiji - thanks - I stand corrected! Actually, I had copied the script from that provided for IE6 when installed by Winetools, so I'm grateful for your advice. Incidentally, what does the character string after program_name.exe ($@ &>/dev/null &) mean please? Best regards, Andy On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:32, Hiji wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I think that's overcomplicating things a bit > (especially for someone new to Wine & possibly Linux.) > ;) > > The easiest/ simplest thing to do is (from command > line and where c: is the fake windows drive): > > wine "c:\fileToLaunch.exe" > > On the Linux desktop, using that line above in > creating a Launcher will suffice. No scripting > required! > > Hiji > > --- Andy Allen <andy.allen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > I think you need to call the .exe file from a shell > > script which goes in > > your bin directory - the script should be of the > > form: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > . findwine > > $WINE > > > "c:\\some_directory\\another_directory\\program_name.exe" > > $@ > > &>/dev/null & > > > > You can then run the script from the command line > > (or Nautilus) - hope > > that helps. > > > > Andy > > > > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:45, Alan TJ Dripps wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I have installed wine on my linux distribution, > > and have looked through > > > all the documentation supplied and online and > > still haven't been able to > > > run a dos/windows application through wine. I am > > trying to launch a > > > dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine. > > > > > > Alan Dripps. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
