Setting working directories for applications?

Mikołaj Zalewski mikolaj at zalewski.pl
Tue Apr 14 06:32:21 CDT 2009


> Well, I've already have looked into start.exe, and it does not provide
> functionality I need.
>
> Look: we have some program, prog.exe It is located it
> ~/.wine/drive_c/foo/ . But it needs it's working dir to be set to
> ~/.wine/drive_c/foo/bar. So, from terminal you can launch it this way:
>
> cd ~/.wine/drive_c/foo/bar
> wine ../prog.exe
>
> Start.exe won't help here, as I don't see any path-related options there.
>   
  Using:

wine start 'c:\windows\Start Menu\My App\App.lnk'

ususally does the trick. However, this can also be hard for a novice to 
guess.

Mikołaj Zalewski



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