doh123 wrote: > more on my system if it helps anyone.... > > running Wine 1.1.29 on Mac OS X 10.6 ... Wine built on this machine, not using default prefixes... > > launching exe's in oddball locations (inside .apps)... from inside the Wine bin folder thats also located inside the .app .. my coding finds the current locations and sets stuff right, also putting Wine in the path for that session... running Wine directly in the right directory by having it enter > > ./wine start /unix "$VARIABLEPATHTOEXE" > "$ANOTHERVARIABLE/log.txt" 2>&1 & > > You should really change to the directory where the executable is and run it from there thusly: wine <program.exe> & This will pick up the settings for the program and run the program in a separate session. This should be possible from an Applescript (.app). James McKenzie