[Wine] launching wine application for mozilla mail attachments

Javier Kohen jkohen at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Dec 31 08:06:15 CST 2006


El dom, 31-12-2006 a las 08:58 -0500, Jerry Geis escribió:
> 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 $@

Try redirecting wine's output to a file and see what's going awry.
You probably want to surround $@ with double quotes to avoid problems
with file names containing white-space.

> 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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