wine users - Jul 2006 - How do I pass parameters to my program when using WINE?

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out the proper way of passing parameters to my program
that is being run by WINE.  I've been trying different things I've found
in
Google, but none have seemed to work yet.  The parameters work in a Windows
environment, so I do believe the program is okay.  This is on a SUSE/SLES 9
machine using WINE .917.  If I want to pass the parameter "/SLEEP:10"
to a
program called "myapp.exe", how would I do it?  I've found and
tried the
following formats, and none have worked so far:

   wine myapp.exe /SLEEP:10

   wine /full/path/myapp.exe /SLEEP:10

   wine "/full/path/myapp.exe /SLEEP:10"

   wine myapp.exe -- /SLEEP:10

   wine myapp.exe -- myapp.exe /SLEEP:10


I've seen the "--" in many examples online, but have not found it
in the
documentations so far.  Some of what I've read indicated that BOTH wine and
my program would try to use ALL the parameters, except for the ones that
come after the "--" (which would only go to my program).

Any suggestions?

thanks!
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Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote:
>   wine myapp.exe /SLEEP:10
This should work. Maybe try
$ wine myapp.exe "/SLEEP:10"
to avoid trouble with the shell.

Daniel

I wrote a small C program that lists the command line arguments given to it,
and it showed that the arguments *were* being supplied to my porgram. So the
syntax I had been trying, and the one you gave me, are probally all
correct.  My problem is within my program, so I am looking in to that some
more.  Thanks for the help, glad to see I was on the right track with the
syntax.



On 7/13/06, Daniel Skorka <skorka@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   wine myapp.exe /SLEEP:10
>
> This should work. Maybe try
> $ wine myapp.exe "/SLEEP:10"
> to avoid trouble with the shell.
>
> Daniel
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>>>>> "Xn" == Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> writes:
    Xn> I wrote a small C program that lists the command line arguments
    Xn> given to it, and it showed that the arguments *were* being supplied
    Xn> to my porgram. So the syntax I had been trying, and the one you gave
    Xn> me, are probally all correct.  My problem is within my program, so I
    Xn> am looking in to that some more.  Thanks for the help, glad to see I
    Xn> was on the right track with the syntax.

Try to understand how the command line handles the special characters and
learn how to escape them. E.g. to give a backslash "\" to the Windows
program, write "\\"

Bye
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