On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 15:58, Karl Muller <karlmuller3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I'm a new mac user, and I'm a little lost. > I've downloaded WINE and successfully used it to install a program called MATLAB R2007b 7.5 (it's a program for science/engineering stuff). > The better way would be to use the Mac OS version of MATLAB.... (It doesn't support all the toolboxes and I'm not sure if it requires another license though...) > Under the Program Files in the WINE directory I've got my matlab folder, but it doesn't have a .exe file, the main program file is a .lnk. If I use WINE to run this in the terminal command space it says: > wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2007b\MATLAB R2007b.lnk > > There's also a .desktop file on my desktop, but that gives me the same thing: > wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\Users\ksphere\Desktop\MATLAB R2007b.desktop > Isn't there a bin subdirectory or something?