Drive letters

[Oliver Sampson]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:31:40 +0100, Rein Klazes
<rklazes at xs4all.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:56:09 +0100, in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
>Oliver Sampson <olsam at 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.

Thanks.  I'll have a look into it.

Oliver

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Oliver Sampson                  
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