Re: Program Files Folder in Wine

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:49 PM, mitch374 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I cannot get Wine to run anything under the Program Files folder.  It gives me the error message that it cannot find C:\Program (it's as if the space between Program and Files stops it).  I have tried eliminating the space in both the folder name and in the command line.  Nothing works.  GRRRRRR
>
1. Change directory to the program's directory first. Use Tab
completing to (easily) properly handle spaces.
Read http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df7a5411abe2b8d37fead01a2b8edc21619
for background
2. Learn how the shell's quoting works:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html#uh-6 till the end of "Strong
versus weak quoting" is basically all there is to know.

> I am trying to install Final Fantasy XI  using Ubuntu 8.10  and Wine 1.1.13 (updated to this this morning, before updating it wouldn't install at all)  Also, I am following the step by step HOW TO that I found here.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>



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