phil lemelin schreef: > > On 10/4/05, G4BBH@xxxxxxxxxxx <G4BBH@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have three problems with wine. Wine set up a pseudo windows >> directory system under my home directory/wine. My application >> resides in the created 'Program Files' directory and a necessary >> file placed in the windows/system directory. >> >> 1. If I click on the exe and run with wine it works without error. >> However I seem unable to set up a path to the exe as in 'wine >> "drive_c/Program Files/Airmail/Airmail3.exe"' as the executive can >> never be found. I tried all sorts of path combinations and failed. >> > For the point #1 Did you tried without the "" and the path would more > look like $HOME/.wine/drive_c/blablabla > > Phil > Phil, the quotation marks are necessary because the path contains a space (C:\Program Files), and Linux considers a space the end of the command unless it is either escaped (C:\\Program\ Files; the extra "\" being an escape character to tell a Linux application --which Wine is--that the character following the \ should be considered part of the command. This is why the first forward slash is escaped as well as the space, so that Linux can recognize it, otherwise Wine would read the path as C:Program Files), or enclosed in quotes (single or double), which tell a Linux application to use the quoted command or path 'as is'. HTH, Holly _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
