wine users - Jul 2006 - Problem running Windows Notepad under Wine

Gentlefolk,

I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running, and Wine
installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag trying to
set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is clicked :-

Environment - ubuntu 6.06, gnome 2.14.2, wine 0.9.17, notepad 5.0.2140.1

create a new text-file 'home/guest/Desktop/test.txt'
select it in Gnome, and right-click for menu
choose 'Open with other application'
in 'Use custom command' enter 'wine notepad'

notepad opens with error message :-
ERROR
file 'ome/guest/Desktop/test.txt' does not exist
do you want to create a new file ? YES NO
choosing 'YES' gives 'path does not exist'

I can navigate to the file via 'File Open' and it opens OK.

It looks as if 'open with other application' is failing to construct the
command-line argument correctly (dropping the first character ?) - is
this a known problem, or have I misunderstood the process here ?

TIA
-- 
Bob Unitt

In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Bob Unitt
<junk@bobunitt.wanadoo.co.uk>:
> Gentlefolk,
> I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
> documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
> further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running, and Wine
> installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag trying to
> set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is clicked :-
Why not just use any Linux editor and run the result through
unix2dos and be set?

[..]

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In article <mailman.54.1153221424.25479.wine-users@winehq.org>, Ian
Couchman <i.couchman@virgin.net> writes
>On Tuesday 18 July 2006 11:23, Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Bob Unitt
<junk@bobunitt.wanadoo.co.uk>:
>> > Gentlefolk,
>> >
>> > I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
>> > documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
>> > further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running,
and Wine
>> > installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag
trying to
>> > set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is
clicked :-
This is now resolved, with help from the Ubuntu Beginner's Forum - I
needed to enclose the 'Notepad' argument in single quotes, i.e.:-

wine 'notepad'

Thanks, 
-- 
Bob Unitt

In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Ian Couchman
<i.couchman@virgin.net>:
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 11:23, Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Bob Unitt
<junk@bobunitt.wanadoo.co.uk>:
>> > Gentlefolk,
>> > I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
>> > documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
>> > further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running,
and Wine
>> > installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag
trying to
>> > set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is
clicked :-
>> Why not just use any Linux editor and run the result through
>> unix2dos and be set?
>> [..]
> Try using kate. This can be set up to save files with dos/windows end of
line
> (under settings->configure kate/open/save)
Good point, just tried this with my preferred editor (vim) it does
recognize file format automatically and will save with CRLF line
terminators if the file opened was already in doze format. ;-)

Though it is still completely beyond me why someone wants to use
an editor as crappy as Notepad on Linux?

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Bob Unitt wrote:
> Gentlefolk,
> 
> I need to give someone the ability to create Windows-format text
> documents, which I can then copy (via SMB) to a W2000 machine for
> further processing. I've got the file-sharing up and running, and Wine
> installed and running Windows Notepad OK, but I've hit a snag trying to
> set it up to load Notepad automatically when the file-icon is clicked :-
> 
That's something that has nothing to do with Wine, actually. Since 
you're using Ubuntu, you are probably using the GNOME desktop. Sorry, 
but I don't know much about GNOME. I suggest you use the 
gnome-mime-editor program and look for something liek 
application/x-plaintext or the like, and change the association to "wine 
  notepad %" or similar, replacing the "%" with whatever
meta-charater
that the database uses to put the filename in the commandline for the 
program.

Also, You can use 'vim' to make text documents with DOS line endings, 
that is, CR-LF (which is exactly what Windows uses).

To do so, when editing your file in Vim (or gVim), or even if you want 
to convert a old file, use the following command: ":se ff=dos"
(woithout
the quotes). Then save as normal (":w").

There are also other programs, such as dos2unix which can convert UNIX 
text files to MS-DOS/Windows format.