wine users - Dec 2001 - Drive letters

Howdy,
In my continuing effort to get Agent up and as functional as possible,
I'm now looking into launching applications.

For example, if I have a .jpg file attached to an email, double
clicking it should be able to open an application (like gimp) to view
the attachment.

I've run into a couple of problems with this.  The first is that gimp
tries to open a file called F:\temp\xyz.jpg.  Of course gimp doesn't
know anything about "F:"  When passing the message to the native linux
system, is there a way to cull/map drive letters?

Secondly, Agent has a Data\temp subdirectory called temp to store the
file while an application uses that file.  When passing the file name
to the it just references the temp\filename. This makes sense from
Agent's point of view because its current directory is whichever data
directory from which it is run.  Is there a way to use this
information to map back to native system?

Thirdly, when passing the file reference to the native linux app, it
appears (from the gimp error message) that the Windows slashes "\" are
used not the Unix "/".  Is there a way to map these for the native
system?

And fourthly, when a file name under the windows system has spaces in
the title, gimp thinks it's actually different file names.  Is there a
way to put the filename in quotes for the native Linux system?

Or have I found my first wine development projects?

Thanks,
===================================================Oliver Sampson
olsam@quickaudio.com
http://www.oliversampson.com

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:56:09 +0100, in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
Oliver Sampson <olsam@quickaudio.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
> In my continuing effort to get Agent up and as functional as possible,
> I'm now looking into launching applications.
> 
> For example, if I have a .jpg file attached to an email, double
> clicking it should be able to open an application (like gimp) to view
> the attachment.
> 
> I've run into a couple of problems with this.  The first is that gimp
> tries to open a file called F:\temp\xyz.jpg.  Of course gimp doesn't
> know anything about "F:"  When passing the message to the native
linux
> system, is there a way to cull/map drive letters?
> 
> Secondly, Agent has a Data\temp subdirectory called temp to store the
> file while an application uses that file.  When passing the file name
> to the it just references the temp\filename. This makes sense from
> Agent's point of view because its current directory is whichever data
> directory from which it is run.  Is there a way to use this
> information to map back to native system?
> 
> Thirdly, when passing the file reference to the native linux app, it
> appears (from the gimp error message) that the Windows slashes
"\" are
> used not the Unix "/".  Is there a way to map these for the
native
> system?
> 
> And fourthly, when a file name under the windows system has spaces in
> the title, gimp thinks it's actually different file names.  Is there a
> way to put the filename in quotes for the native Linux system?
> 
> Or have I found my first wine development projects?
I sent in such a patch in Jan 2000, nearly 2 year ago. I don't know
why it was never committed or whether it was rejected.
If you are interested:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rklazes/tmp/UnixProc.diff

it needs of course some (perhaps a lot of) work to get it working on
the current wine. 
If you feel like doing that, please do.

Rein.
-- 
Rein Klazes
rklazes@xs4all.nl