similar to: Executing shortcut (.lnk) files?

Whenever I open Microsoft Word (2003), I get this warning two times---and then must manually 'OK' it twice before I can proceed in Word (a pain to do):   "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'R.lnk' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available, and then try again."   Perhaps I linked Word

Bugs item #2093, was opened at 2005-07-08 04:43 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411&aid=2093&group_id=85 Category: win32-shortcut Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: unable to open existing shortcut Initial Comment: # ## My RUBY version # C:\>ruby -v ruby

Can anyone help me with how to create a windows shortcut in wine? I want to create windows shortcuts on a Linux box that windows clients can then access. I'm trying to use wine to allow me to create the shortcut on the Linux box. I'm using the wine-0.9.31 version of wine on Fedora Core 5. I've tried two approaches, both fail. I've tried using an autohotkey script. This script runs

On some wine builds when I open and closed a file from within my app, Wine creates .lnk shortcut files for the opened files. Why does wine create them and how do I tell Wine not to create them?

Hi! I use Ubuntu 8.10 and when a program wants to add a shortcut on the desktop, it create a .lnk file, is this a bug or not? Is it maybe because there's no "Desktop" folder in my home directory, but a localized directory (Bureau in french), but it is correctly set in winecfg! Thanks.

Hi Friends, I want to create a shortcut on the desktop (Fedora 16 with KDE 4) to call a windows executable (a ".exe", let say "discus.exe") . This programme does not need any install (so it does not appear on the K menu under the Wine section), it just has to be called via Wine. How to proceed to create this shortcut ?

Good morning, thank you for your informations! I'll try them one by one. But as I can see now, I have to change my ways - batch-files are a maybe the best alternative, that I haven't thought of! Thank you very much! Greetings zuhans Gert van den Berg schrieb: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 00:02, zuhansh at mailpost.at<zuhansh at mailpost.at> wrote: > >> hello,

Hi everyone! I'm a recent linux user starting my first steps with this powerfull OS, and so far I've been able to make my way through installing and configuring a basic box connected to a M$ network. Now I'm trying to create a shortcut to run my windows database application in wine but so far I had no success... To correctly start my application in M$ windows I need to create a

Hi Samba-gurus, I have a problem with samba 2.0.0beta4 on solaris 2.5.1 (samba 1.9.18p10 behaves the same) : 1. I have a ordinary text-file on a samba-share (foo.txt). NT4.0 sees the samba-share (\\sun100\tmp) as a netdrive with the letter K:. I've done a 'net use k: \\sun100\tmp'. 2. I can doubleclick in NT4.0-explorer on foo.txt and notepad comes up correctly. 3. I

Dear Rxperts, Through Windows OS, I created shortcuts (paste as shortcut) to excel spreadsheets ( with "xlsx" as the file extension). I wasn't able to read the shortcuts through R and using "read" functions of "xlsx" package. exf <- "a1.xlsx.lnk" > read.xlsx(exf,1) Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;",

hello, on Windows XP I created some directories and files - and some links (.lnk-files) to files and directories and saved them on a ntfs-disk. Now I want to use it in Debian (testing, Gnome) but the links won't work. When working in Nautilus 2.26..3 there just a little window appears telling me, that there is no application installed to view this file. If I want to "open with"

Hi, I am using Wine 1.3.20 to run the Office 2007 suite and it works almost perfectly. But each time I open an Office file (docx, xlsx, ...) a .lnk is created even if I do not press "Save". Another .lnk is create on exit. And a few others when I save the document as far as I can tell. They are all created in the current directory. This problem looks a lot like bug 15480 - Saving files

Hey I want to ask if is there any option how to run .lnk file from terminal Example : Code: wine aaa.lnk I want to create and script to run a game but I can't set proper parameters wich are required for the shourtcut to have.

Hi all, I'm having an odd error with Samba 2.2.5 and I'm wondering if anyone can give me a hand with it. About a month ago, I upgraded from Samba 2.2.1 to 2.2.5 on RedHat 7.2 and, since then, my Win98 users have been receiving "No such file or directory" errors during login. The upgrade was installed using John Terpstra's RH 7.2 RPM package. Users are set up with roaming

I want create a shortcut to Steam through wine so I don't have to enter in the full command in X11 every time I want to run wine. How do I do this on a mac?

whenever I open or save a file on MSword 2007 using WIne 1.3.28 on Ubuntu 11.10, there's also a .docx.lnk file that gets created with the same name as my documents. How to fix this?

Can anyone help me with this error? I get this error when I run my vb script in wine. The script creates a shortcut and works fine when I run it at a cmd prompt in Windows. I'm new to both vb script and wine. Z:\root\vb_shortcut>cscript mk_shortcut.vbs "temp" "Z:\root\vb_shortcut \test.txt " "." Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6 Copyright (C)

I sent this to ruby-core. I meant to cc win32utils as well. :) Dan -----Original Message----- From: Berger, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Berger@qwest.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:08 AM To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org Subject: File.link on Win32 Hi all, I noticed that win32.c in 1.8.2 p3 contained a link() function (or maybe it was always there and I never noticed). Anyway, it

Hi R-helpers, I must use WinXP at work, and I'm missing a particular feature that's available in R on my Mac at home... In WinXP I would like to launch R by dragging and releasing a text file on top of the R shortcut on my desktop. Then, I would like the working directory to be automatically set to the location of that text file. That's what works in MacOS, but I can't figure

Hi all, I''ve narrowed down one more problem for cygwin/mingw. For win32-shortcut, it appears that you need to add "-luuid" to $LIBS. Once Takaaki tried that, it worked. How does this look for the extconf.rb for win32-shortcut? # extconf.rb require "mkmf" require "ftools" if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /cygwin|mingw/i CONFIG["CC"] = "g++"