Office 97 installation

Raul Dias chaos at swi.com.br
Tue May 21 17:31:50 CDT 2002


Andriy Palamarchuk <apa3a at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I think you can call Linux apps from Windows
>applications.
>
>> #This would let a call to a generic (search in
>> wine's 
>> #Path) notepad and call a generic (in the user's
>> unix
>> #Path) gvim
>> "notepad.exe" = "gvim"
>> 
>> #This would be a more restricted one
>> #only if the application called matchs the dir
>> "c:\windows\sol.exe" = "/usr/X11R6/bin/solitaire"
>>
>> This would also avoid a linking hell in the c:\
>> tree.
>
>All this can be implemented with "links hell", right?
>;-)

I was trying to avoid it.

This can become a burnier hell if you keep on fake-windows 
tree for each installed app (thru $WINEPREFIX var) as I do.


[]'s
Raul Dias




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