On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The program I'm using is 4NEC2, a freeware antenna-modelling program. > I'm running wine-0.9.61 on Gentoo Linux on a Dell with Intel Core Duo > cpu. > > Let's say I'm working on a design that I call "fubar". 4NEC2 will > create files with names like "fubar.NEC" and "fubar.log". 4NEC uses > Notepad to open the files for viewing. For some reason, my system > always seems to try opening them as "fubar.NE.txt" and "fubar.lo.txt". > The last character of the extension is deleted, and ".txt" is appended. $ touch foobar.log $ notepad foobar.log # file save works fine > When it tries to open files with these weird names, the result is a > "File not found" error. Is there any way I can set Notepad not to be so > "helpful"? As a second option, 4NEC2 allows to specify another text > editor. Is there an "Edit" equivalant for Wine, or can Wine launch > linux programs like vim or nano? Try notepad++
