I am running RedHat 7.1 on it's own linux drive, and have my win98 drive
mounted in fstab as vfat. I have installed wine, and can run programs
on my windows drive in old 8.3 named directoies. However, whenever I
try to run anything in Program Files, for example (with the space in the
file name), I get the following error:
/opt/wine/bin/wine.bin: cannot find 'mnt/c/Program\ Files/Sony\
Handheld/palm.exe
I can try it from either the terminal, or from GNOME, but it can't seem
to find any files with spaces.
I can cd to that directory in the terminal, and the files exist, but
wine just cannot find them.
I have "FileSystem" = "win95" in my wine config file.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin Clemons
lawson_whitney@juno.com
2002-Jan-17 20:18 UTC
Problems with VFAT files with spaces in Wine
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Martin Clemons wrote:> I am running RedHat 7.1 on it's own linux drive, and have my win98 drive > mounted in fstab as vfat. I have installed wine, and can run programs > on my windows drive in old 8.3 named directoies. However, whenever I > try to run anything in Program Files, for example (with the space in the > file name), I get the following error: > /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin: cannot find 'mnt/c/Program\ Files/Sony\ > Handheld/palm.exe > I can try it from either the terminal, or from GNOME, but it can't seem > to find any files with spaces. > I can cd to that directory in the terminal, and the files exist, but > wine just cannot find them. > I have "FileSystem" = "win95" in my wine config file. > Thanks in advance for your help. > Martin Clemons >I don't see what is your problem. I even made a fat32 FS and populated it with some stupidly named directories (why is it necessary to have spaces in directory names? Just because you can? It's still stupid). Ohh, I see, I think. Script started on Thu Jan 17 21:01:51 2002 [whit@giftie whit]$ export PS1='$' $winelauncher '/mnt/ugly/Program\ Files/Sony\ Handheld/About.exe' /usr/local/bin/wine: cannot find '/mnt/ugly/Program\ Files/Sony\ Handheld/About. exe' $exit Script done on Thu Jan 17 21:03:48 2002 I can get that error too, if I try and try. You obviously don't know how to work the shell. If you single-quote the whole path, you need not, in fact you must not, use escape to quote the spaces. Unless you actually have a directory that is named 'Program\ Files'. That is not possible on vfat, but it is on normal unix filesystems, and it is what you have told Wine to look for. I use winelauncher because that is what you are actually running when you type "wine". Now I'll show you a few ways to do it that will succeed: Script started on Thu Jan 17 20:49:06 2002 [whit@giftie whit]$ export PS1="$" $winelauncher '/mnt/ugly/Program Files/Sony Handheld/about.exe' Wine exited with a successful status $winelauncher /mnt/ugly/P*/S*/About.exe Wine exited with a successful status $winelauncher /mnt/ugly/Program\ Files/Sony\ Handheld/About.exe Wine exited with a successful status $cd /mnt/ugly/P*/S* $pwd /mnt/ugly/Program files/Sony Handheld $winelauncher about.exe Wine exited with a successful status $mount|grep ugly /dev/hdb3 on /mnt/ugly type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=501) $df|grep ugly /dev/hdb3 33728 21 33706 0% /mnt/ugly $exit exit Script done on Thu Jan 17 20:52:55 2002 [whit@giftie whit]$ Lawson How to work the shell, for wine-newbies. Number 131072.