Short of writing a shell script, the easiest way to start an executable file in its directory is to run $ wine start /unix ".wine/drive_c/Scan/program.exe" When invoked this way, wine will try to start the file the same as if it were double-clicked in windows explorer. It will start from the path containing the exe and invoke it with its full dos path. This is the way file browsers invoke Wine. If that worked, this should also work. The drawback is that you cannot pass arguments to the executable this way; for that you would need a shell script. Vincent Povirk