wine users - Mar 2005 - How do I launch a dos/windows program through wine

Dear all,

I have installed wine on my linux distribution, and have looked through
all the documentation supplied and online and still haven't been able to
run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am trying to launch a
dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.

Alan Dripps.
-- 
Alan TJ Dripps (BEng, AMIIE)
Tirna Electronics Ltd.
3 Roderick Place,
West Linton,
Peeblesshire,
EH46 7ES,
United Kingdom.

Am Do, M?r 17, 2005 at 01:45:39 +0000 schrieb Alan TJ
Dripps:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have installed wine on my linux distribution, and have looked through
> all the documentation supplied and online and still haven't been able
to
> run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am trying to launch a
> dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.
Use WineTools: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Regards
	Joachim von Thadden
-- 
"Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system?
          Never run a touchy system!!!"

--- Alan TJ Dripps <alan@tirnaelectronics.co.uk>
wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have installed wine on my linux distribution, and
> have looked through
> all the documentation supplied and online and still
> haven't been able to
> run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am
> trying to launch a
> dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.
Hi Alan,

Check here:
http://www.winehq.com/docs/wine-user.html#BASIC-USAGE

Hiji


		
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Hi Alan,
I think you need to call the .exe file from a shell script which goes in
your bin directory - the script should be of the form:

#!/bin/bash
. findwine
$WINE "c:\\some_directory\\another_directory\\program_name.exe" $@
&>/dev/null &

You can then run the script from the command line (or Nautilus) - hope
that helps.

Andy

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:45, Alan TJ Dripps wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have installed wine on my linux distribution, and have looked through
> all the documentation supplied and online and still haven't been able
to
> run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am trying to launch a
> dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.
> 
> Alan Dripps.

Hi Andy,

I think that's overcomplicating things a bit
(especially for someone new to Wine & possibly Linux.)
;)

The easiest/ simplest thing to do is (from command
line and where c: is the fake windows drive):
> wine "c:\fileToLaunch.exe"
On the Linux desktop, using that line above in
creating a Launcher will suffice.  No scripting
required!

Hiji

--- Andy Allen <andy.allen@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> I think you need to call the .exe file from a shell
> script which goes in
> your bin directory - the script should be of the
> form:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> . findwine
> $WINE
>
"c:\\some_directory\\another_directory\\program_name.exe"
> $@
> &>/dev/null &
> 
> You can then run the script from the command line
> (or Nautilus) - hope
> that helps.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:45, Alan TJ Dripps wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have installed wine on my linux distribution,
> and have looked through
> > all the documentation supplied and online and
> still haven't been able to
> > run a dos/windows application through wine.  I am
> trying to launch a
> > dos/windows '.exe' file in linux through wine.
> > 
> > Alan Dripps.
> 
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--- Andy Allen <andy.allen@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi Hiji - thanks - I stand corrected!
> Actually, I had copied the script from that provided
> for IE6 when
> installed by Winetools, so I'm grateful for your
> advice. Incidentally,
> what does the character string after
> program_name.exe ($@ &>/dev/null &)
> mean please?
That is usually for helping speed up the app by
outputting its errors, messages, etc. into null. :) 
You can keep that in there if you like.

Hiji


		
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