[Wine] launching wine application for mozilla mail attachments

[Jerry Geis]

Thanks,

I created the file, and clicked on my attachment. Wine does come up now
but the file is not loaded. Any thoughts on that? My file is this:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
/usr/local/bin/wine c:/windows/efaxview.exe $@


Jerry


L. Rahyen wrote:
> On Saturday December 30 2006 16:10, Jerry Geis wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to get a wine application to launch
>> when I click on email attachments.
>>
>> The error I get is "The application you specified wine
>> c:/windows/efaxview.exe could not be found"
>>
>> How do I get a wine application to run when clicking
>> on an email attachment.
>>     
>
> 	It is possible that problem arises because string "wine
> c:/windows/efaxview.exe" interpreted like "wine\ c:/windows/efaxview.exe".
> And this is of course lead to such error. This is bug in your application and 
> not in Wine. As workaround try the following. Open "/usr/bin/efaxview.exe" in 
> your favorite text editor (as root). Then paste to this file command to run 
> your Windows application:
>
> 	#!/usr/bin/env sh
> 	 wine c:/windows/efaxview.exe $@
>
> 	Save it and close. Now execute (as root):
>
> 	chmod +x /usr/bin/efaxview.exe
>
> 	Now you can use efaxview.exe command from the shell to run it. Simply provide 
> this short command without spaces to your program to open mail attachments. 
> Hope this helps.
>
>
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