jl wrote: > james@james-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:/Family/family.exe' &> /tmp/famlog.txt This won't work. "start" program sans a separate process. You have to do something like this: Code: wine 'c:\Family\family.exe' &> /tmp/famlog.txt Also note back-slashes instead of forward slashes. MS for whatever reason decided to be different.