[Wine]How do I launch a dos/windows program through wine

[Andy Allen]

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?

Best regards,
Andy

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:32, Hiji wrote:
> 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 at 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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